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Title : Elastic Multicast Routing Protocol
Author(s) : Brian Adamson
Claudiu Danilov
Joseph Macker
Filename : draft-adamson-elasticmcast-00.txt
Pages : 17
Date : 2013-11-04
Abstract:
This document describes an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast routing
protocol suitable for dynamic network environments including mobile
wireless. To handle high dynamics, this routing mechanism uses
redundant forwarding, based upon the Simplified Multicast Forwarding
(SMF) approach of [RFC6621], while converging to regular multicast
distribution trees where or when the network becomes relatively
stable. The rationale is that intermittent connectivity directly
affects the ability of routers to synchronize on their view of the
network, thus making it difficult to converge on efficient
distribution trees, while network wide broadcast may be prohibitively
expensive for relatively sparse groups. A hybrid approach, called
Elastic Multicast, is specified which dynamically switches between
limited scope broadcast and tree path forwarding independently at
each node. The trees created during stable periods and portions of
the network are pruned from the SMF efficient flooding mesh.
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