Session directories and scalable Internet multicast address allocation
- 1 October 1998
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Vol. 28 (4) , 105-116
- https://doi.org/10.1145/285237.285269
Abstract
A multicast session directory is a mechanism by which users can discover the existence of multicast sessions. In the Mbone, session announcements have also served as multicast address reservations - a dual purpose that is efficient, but which may cause some side-affects as session directories scale.In this paper we examine the scaling of multicast address allocation when it is performed by such a multicast session directory. Despite our best efforts to make such an approach scale, this analysis ultimately reveals significant scaling problems, and suggests a new approach to multicast address allocation in the Internet environment.Keywords
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