Internet protocol (IP) multicast technology has matured quite a bit since it was first deployed in the late 1990s. Multicast-enabled applications such as webinars, video/audio conferences, Internet ...

Abstract: In this paper, we discuss the use of IP traffic engineering (TE) capabilities for the deployment and the maintenance of multicast distribution trees along paths that will comply with ...

IP multicast is a form of group communication that uses a special range of IP addresses, called multicast addresses, to identify a set of receivers that want to receive the same data from a source.

IP multicast uses a special range of IP addresses, called multicast addresses, that can be shared by multiple hosts. When a source wants to send data to a group of receivers, it sends a single packet ...