Publication: Active Network Support for Multicast Applications
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1998
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This article analyzes the necessity and feasibility of designing a protocol for active
networks that supports multicasting a plications with different characteristics in
elements required by multicast applications, and from this study a network service
description is given. The advantages of providing this service over active networks
are studied. The service description is then used as the set of requirements for the
design of the RMANP protocol, which is capable of providin the service over
active network technology. Then a prototype implementation OF RMANP over the
Active Node Transport System (ANTS) is presented, and some data for the evaluation
of its performance is provided. Finally, the main conclusions are that active
networks provide flexible support for the development of new network services, but
further improvements in runtime efficiency are required.
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IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 12 No. 3, May/June 1998, pp. 46-53.