Strategies for using multicasting to locate resources

One issue in distributed computing systems is how to locate and manage resource information that is inherently distributed within the computing environment. The article investigates the use of a technique called multicasting for location of such distributed information. It presents three different strategies for using the resources contained by a machine to dynamically compute the multicast addresses on which the machine should listen for requests of the information. The central goal of these strategies is to filter out requests for resource information at the network interface of a machine so that a machine only receives a request for information if it contains the resource