Issues for Inter-Provider IP Multicast

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Table of Contents

Issues for Inter-Provider IP Multicast

Outline

Thesis

Observations

Problem Statement

Issues with IDMR Current Protocols

Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF)

Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF)

Dense Mode Routing Protocols

Source Based Distribution Trees

Explicit Join Routing Protocols

Shared Distribution Tree

Theorectical Properties

Dense Mode Tradeoffs

Sparse Mode Tradeoffs

Forwarding State Maintenance--Stability

Unicast Topology Dependency

Semantic Overloading

Semantic Overloading, continued

Semantic Overloading: Unicast

Semantic Overloading: Multicast

Some Routing Policy Issues

Wrong RPF Neighbor Problem

Third Party Resource Dependencies

Third Part Resource Dependencies, continued

Distance Core/RP Problem

Distance Core/RP Problem, continued

A Few Miscellaneous Issues

A Few (more) Miscellaneous Issues

Near-Term: Current IDMR Direction

M-BGP

Grand Unified Multicast -- GUM

GUM -- EGP Requirements

GUM -- Tree Construction

Source S in Root Domain G

Source S Not in Root Domain G

Implications for Address Allocations

Finally

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Author: David Meyer

Email: meyer@antc.uoregon.edu

Home Page: http://www.antc.uoregon.edu