Multicast Protocol for Uni-Directional Networks

A very inexpensive receive-only satellite receiver can receive high bandwidth traffic from a feeder. Therefore the connection between the feeder and the receiver is uni-directional. The existing routing protocols, such as Link-State and Distance-Vector, are designed on the premise that any links are bidirectional and they cannot handle the uni-directional links. In this paper,a dynamic multicast routing protocol is proposed, which can handle uni-directional networks. This protocol can also adapt to the dyna…