IMSS: IP Multicast Shortcut Service

Author

Anker, Tal ; Breitgand, David ; Dolev, Danny ; Levy, Zohar

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel

Volume

7

fYear

1998

fDate

6-9 Jan 1998

Firstpage

475

Abstract

We present IMSS: IP Multicast Shortcut Service for ATM networks. IMSS pursues the “short cut” routing paradigm in order to exploit the underlying ATM QoS and native routing mechanisms in the optimal way. IMSS is built on top of CONGRESS (Connection Oriented Group-Address Resolution Service). CONGRESS is an efficient native ATM protocol for resolution and management of multicast group addresses in a large ATM cloud. CONGRESS resolves multicast group addresses and maintains their membership for applications. It is not designed to handle the applications´ data exchange. An IMSS extension at a multicast router uses the group membership information that it receives from CONGRESS in order to open ATM connections that bypass (“shortcut”) the IP routing mechanism

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; client-server systems; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; ATM connections; ATM networks; CONGRESS; Connection Oriented Group-Address Resolution Service; IMSS; IMSS extension; IP Multicast Shortcut Service; IP routing mechanism; data exchange; group membership information; large ATM cloud; multicast group addresses; multicast router; native ATM protocol; native routing mechanisms; short cut routing paradigm; underlying ATM QoS; Clouds; Mars; Multicast protocols; Network servers; Network topology; Proposals; Routing protocols; Scalability; Web server; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kohala Coast, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8255-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1998.649243

Filename

649243