The Basics of Group Communication -- Types of Communication -- Unicast Communication -- Multicast Communication -- Concast Communication -- Multipeer Communication -- Other Types of Communication -- Multicast vs. Unicast -- Scalability -- Applications of Group Communication -- Distributed Databases -- Push Technologies -- Interactive Multimedia Applications -- Characteristics of Groups -- Special Aspects of Group Communication -- Reliability -- Flow and Congestion Control -- Group Addressing and Administration -- Support within the Communication System -- Data Link Layer -- Network Layer -- Transport Layer -- Application Layer -- Multicast Routing -- Basic Routing Algorithms -- Distance-Vector Algorithms -- Link State Algorithms -- Group Dynamics -- Scoping and Multicast Address Allocation -- Scope of Multicast Groups -- Multicast Address Allocation -- Concepts for Multicast Routing -- Source-Based Routing -- Steiner Trees -- Trees with Rendezvous Points -- Comparison of Basic Techniques -- Multicast Routing on the Internet -- DVMRP -- Multicast Extensions to OSPF -- PIM -- CBT -- Multicast Routing between Domains -- Quality of Service -- Integrated Services -- Classes of Service Provided by Integrated Services -- Receiver-Oriented Reservations in RSVP -- Sender-Oriented Reservations with ST2 -- RSVP vs. ST2 -- Differentiated Services -- Basic Concept -- Proposals for Service Concepts for Differentiated Services -- Differences and Integration Options -- IntServ vs. DiffServ -- Integration of DiffServ and IntServ
Notes
Translation of: Multicast : Protokol le und Anwendungen
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-327) and index