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Vartalaap: A distributed multicast communication system
Author(s) -
Lashkari Yezdezard,
Ramachandran Viswanath,
Malpani Sanjay,
Mehndiratta S. L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380230707
Subject(s) - multicast , xcast , source specific multicast , pragmatic general multicast , protocol independent multicast , computer science , ip multicast , computer network , distributed computing , inter domain , multicast address , distance vector multicast routing protocol , broadcasting (networking)
Abstract With the increasing proliferation of computer networks and distributed systems, there is a growing number of applications using multicast communication. This paper presents the Vartalaap system developed at IIT, Bombay. Vartalaap is an hierarchical distributed system for multicast communication over a network, implemented in a hardware‐independent fashion. The multicast is achieved without resorting to unnecessary broadcasting of messages over the network. Issues covered in this paper include the primitives for multicast, the multicast model and the system architecture. We discuss the implementation of Vartalaap and compare it with some other systems. We conclude with a discussion on the limitations of the current implementation and directions for future work.