Traffic engineering is an important mechanism for Internet network providers seeking to
optimize network performance and traffic delivery. Routing optimization plays a key role in …

RFC 3569: An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) [RFC Home] [TEXT|PDF|HTML] [Tracker]
[IPR] [Info page] INFORMATIONAL Network Working Group S. Bhattacharyya, Ed. Request for …

Traditionally, the data plane has been designed with fixed functions to forward packets using
a small set of protocols. This closed-design paradigm has limited the capability of the …

Software Defined Networks: A Comprehensive Approach, Second Edition provides in-depth
coverage of the technologies collectively known as Software Defined Networking (SDN) …

Ad hoc mobile wireless networks have seen increased adaptation in a variety of disciplines
because they can be deployed with simple infrastructures and virtually no central …

A method of determining local multicast information of a local area network (LAN),
comprising dividing the LAN to a number of segments larger than the number of virtual LANs …

Multicast (MC) routing algorithms capable of satisfying the quality of service (QoS)
requirements of real-time applications will be essential for future high-speed networks. We …

RFC 3973: Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
[RFC Home] [TEXT|PDF|HTML] [Tracker] [IPR] [Errata] [Info page] EXPERIMENTAL Updated …

Emerging ubiquitous computing needs" anytime and anywhere" network connections.
Mobile ad hoc networks are well suited for this application area because they are self …

See application file for complete search history. A multicast non-stop forwarding (NSF) router
architecture (56) References Cited enhances high availability of a multicast router in a …