Multicast Communication Protocols and Applications
Multicast Communication: Protocols, Programming, and Applications takes a comprehensive approach to the multicast capabilities of Internet Protocol (IP) communications, explaining how best to use IP networks to carry packets from one or more senders to multiple recipients. The book supplements detailed, carefully thought-out explanations of multicast network traffic with conceptual diagrams that help visual learners pick up the material. For the more practically minded, the discussion on implementing multicast over various transport protocols, such as the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), includes snippets of C code that make the procedures understandable.
This book wins points for its physical design, not only because it's a durable hardback, but also because the pages are well organized: one column contains the body text; the remaining space provides terms, questions, and brief phrases that describe what's adjacent to them in the text. It's almost as if the book were pre-annotated; and there's plenty of white space to make notes, if you're so inclined. The documentation on the Internet's Multicast Backbone (Mbone) is both excellent and interesting, but the discussion on how Mbone traffic is limited to subnets, domains, countries, and geographic regions, or not limited at all, is really informative. --David Wall
Topics covered: Multicast schemes, explained for system administrators and software developers; multicast routing (including DVMRP, multicast OSPF, and PIM); how to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS) for conferencing and other media that have high bandwidth requirements; implementation of multicasting across several transport protocols (including UDP, XTP, and MTP); and the functioning of the Mbone and its most popular applications.
Review
"This is highly recommended reading for anyone who has been looking for a technically precise, yet easy to understand book on Multicast communication"
-Dr. Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany
The book is structured as follows: Chapter 2 introduces the fundamentals of group communication and discusses the principal problems associated with the implementation of computer-supported group communication. The subsequent chapters are each devoted to one specific area and present alternative technical solutions. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with Internet protocols that are already in use now or that represent new developments. The topics covered focus on multicast routing as well as on quality-of-service support for multimedia applications based on group communication. Chapter 5 begins by introducing the background of ATM networks and then looks at multicast support for ATM networks with particular emphasis on signaling at the user-network interface. Protocols for the support of multicast communication on the transport layer are the subject of Chapter 6. This chapter presents various protocols with different multicast services, some of which are currently being used on the Internet. The structure of the MBone, the multicast backbone of the Internet, is discussed in Chapter 7. Some applications that use the MBone are presented, such as systems for videoconferencing. Finally, Chapter 8 provides a perspective on the issues that still have not been addressed in multicast communication and also looks at active networks, currently
discussed in conjunction with the Internet, as a technology that could possibly be beneficial to multicast communication.
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