Good paper on multicast deployment
Robert Olson
olson at mcs.anl.gov
Sat Nov 25 10:02:55 CST 2000
good reading:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/almeroth00evolution.html
>Abstract: Without a doubt, multicast communication---the one-to-many or
>many-to-many delivery of data---has
>become a hot topic. It is of interest in the research community, among
>standards groups, and to network
>service providers. For all the attention multicast has received, there are
>still issues that have not been completely
>resolved. One result is that protocols are still evolving and some standards
>are not yet finished. From a deployment perspective, the lack of
>standards has slowed progress, but efforts to deploy multicast as an
>experimental service are in fact gaining momentum. The question now is
>how long it will be before multicast becomes a true Internet service. The
>goal of this paper is to describe the past, present, and future of
>multicast. Starting with the Multicast Backbone...
--bob
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