Title :
Mobile multicast support in IP networks
Author :
Lin, Chunhung Richard ; Wang, Kai-Min
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng, Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan
Abstract :
In this paper, we present an alternative design, RBMoM (Range-Based Mobile Multicast), for efficiently supporting multicast for mobile hosts on the Internet. The current version of Mobile IP proposes two approaches to supporting mobile multicast, which are remote subscription and bi-directional tunneling. The former provides the shortest routes for delivery of multicast datagrams to mobile hosts; the latter hides host mobility from all other members of the group (therefore, no any overhead in the multicast tree maintenance). RBMoM intends to trade off between the shortest delivery path and the frequency of the multicast tree reconfiguration by controlling the service range of the multicast home agent (MHA). Actually, we find that remote subscription and bi-directional tunneling are the extremes of RBMoM. From the point of view of the MHA and the service range concepts, RBMoM is a generalization of both approaches and a unifying mobile multicast approach. The simulation results show that RBMoM can adapt to the fluctuation of both host movement and the number of mobile group members, and has much better performance than the two current IP mobile multicast solutions
Keywords :
Internet; mobile computing; multicast communication; performance evaluation; protocols; quality of service; simulation; telecommunication network routing; trees (mathematics); IP networks; Internet; RBMoM; Range-Based Mobile Multicast; bi-directional tunneling; mobile hosts; multicast home agent; multicast tree reconfiguration; performance; remote subscription; service range control; shortest delivery path; simulation; Bidirectional control; Frequency; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Internet; Mobile computing; Multicast protocols; Subscriptions; Tunneling; Unicast;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM 2000. Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tel Aviv
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5880-5
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.2000.832565