A Survey of Alternative Group Communications Services.

El-Sayed, A. and Roca, V. and Mathy, L. (2003) A Survey of Alternative Group Communications Services. IEEE Network, 17 (1). pp. 46-51. ISSN 0890-8044

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Abstract

As expectations for the Internet to support multimedia applications grow, new services need to be deployed. One of them is the group communication service for one-to-many or many-to-many data delivery. After more than a decade of important research and development efforts, the deployment of multicast routing in the Internet is far behind expectations. Therefore, a first motivation for an alternative group communication service is to bypass the lack of native IP multicast routing. Although less efficient and scalable than native multicast routing, such alternative services are generally suitable for the purpose. A second possible motivation is to go beyond the limitations of classic multicast routing for very specific working environments. We identify, classify, and discuss some of these alternative approaches.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
IEEE Network
Additional Information:
This paper presents a timely and critical review of the state-of-the-art in Internet group communications services. Group communications has reemerged as an important area as a result of the recent interest in overlay multicast networks. This paper has received 87 citations (Google Scholar). RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Computer Science and Informatics
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?? hardware and architecturesoftwarecomputer networks and communicationsinformation systemsqa75 electronic computers. computer science ??
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2542
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Deposited On:
25 Jun 2008 15:21
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Yes
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Published
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