An Approach to Support IP Multicasting in Networks with Mobile Hosts

it is an efficient way for a mobile host to obtain multicast servicevia a local multicast router on the visited network. However, there is a possibilityfor a temporary disruption of multicast service due to the join latency and otherissues in handoff procedure. This paper proposes a scheme to solve such a problem.A smooth handoff mechanism is introduced to avoid unnecessary data loss. Besides,any mobility agent capable of multicast can be appointed to provide service to mobile hosts, which makes it possible…