A New Model for Reliable and Secure Multicast

In computer network, multicast is an efficient scheme for one-to-many and many-to-many communication. Although research on multicast has begun as early as the rise of Internet, multicast is still not widely deployed in the current backbone Internet. With the coming of Cloud Computing and Internet of Things, the distribution of huge amounts of data relies heavily on communication among multiple parties, and multicast has its inherent advantage dealing with these scenarios. This paper analyses the vulnerabilities and deficiencies of the current multicast implementation and proposes a new model to support reliable transmission and security in multicast. Network service and the pricing model are integrated into the model to best exploit the value of multicast.