Experiences of any source and source specific multicast implementation in experimental network

Abstract

Any Source Multicast (ASM) called Internet Standard Multicast (ISM) and its extension, Specific Source Multicast (SSM), are two known multicast technologies for delivering a data flow to a great number of customers over IP networks without cumulative bandwidth consumption. ASM technology is suitable for the many-to-many delivering model such as videoconferencing, where more sources are sending the traffic to one multicast group. SSM technology was developed as a solution for one-to-many delivering model such as the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), where the receiver exactly defines the source of the multicast traffic. ASM and SSM can co-operate together on the network if specific conditions are complied with. The paper deals with describing the experiences and the measurement results from the implementation of these two multicast technologies in an experimental network. © 2007 International Federation for Information Processing.