Multicast Address Management and Connection Control Based on Hierarchical Autonomous Structure

Multicast capability, including multicast address and multicast rout- ing mechanisms, at the network layer is necessary in order to reduce the band- width requirements of multiparty, multicast applications. Based on hierarchical au- tonomous structure in accordance with the self-organization topologies of Internet, the paper puts forward a multicast address management scheme that is shown to be robust and scalable. Connection control hierarchy (CCH) based on master/slave re- lationship and a simple efficien…