Multicast Communication: Protocols and Applications - Couverture rigide

Wittmann, Ralph; Zitterbart, Martina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1558606459 ISBN 13 : 9781558606456

Editeur : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In, 2000

Synopsis

The Internet is quickly becoming the backbone for the worldwide information society of the future. Point-to-point communication dominates the network today, however, group communication - using multicast technology - will rapidly gain importance as digital, audio, and video transmission, push technology for the Web, and distribution of software updates to millions of end users become ubiquitous. "Multicast Communication: Protocols and Applications" explains how and why multicast technology is the key to this transition. This book provides network engineers, designers, and administrators with the underlying concepts as well as a complete and detailed description of the protocols and algorithms that comprise multicast. It presents information on the entire range of multicast protocols, including, PIM-SM, MFTP, and PGM and explains their mechanisms, trade-offs, and solid approaches to their implementation. It provides an in-depth examination of Quality of Service concepts, including: RSVP, ST2, IntServ, and DiffServ. It discusses group address allocation and scoping. It discusses multicast implementation in ATM networks; builds a solid understanding of the Mbone; and surveys the successes and current limitations of real multicast applications on the Internet such as videoconferencing, whiteboards, and distance learning.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ralph Wittmann is in the research group for High Performance Networking and Multimedia Systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig. His research interests are mainly concerned with multicast and multimedia communications in heterogeneous environments. Martina Zitterbart is full professor in computer science at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. Her primary research interests are in multimedia communication systems, internetworking and conferencing applications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558606459
• ISBN 13: 9781558606456
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 349
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible