Title :
Multicast group membership management in high speed wide area networks
Author :
Auerbach, Jill ; Gopal, Madan ; Kaplan, Marc ; Kutten, Shay
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
An application for multicast service for high-speed WANs (wide area networks) which is capable of exploiting multicast hardware is described. Modularity and low cost area achieved by assigning to distinct components the separate problems of (1) naming groups, (2) finding group members in a network, (3) configuring multicast hardware, and (4) delivering multicast messages in sequence. The overall organization of the service is given, along with the methods used to solve the first two subproblems
Keywords :
computer networks; distributed processing; file organisation; high speed wide area networks; modularity; multicast group membership management; Concurrent computing; Costs; Hardware; High-speed networks; Intelligent networks; Multicast algorithms; Resource management; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1991., 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2144-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.1991.148670
