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An approach to support IP multicasting in networks with mobile hosts

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It is an efficient way for a mobile host to obtain multicast service via a local multicast router on the visited network. However, there is a possibility for a temporary disruption of multicast service due to the join latency and other issues 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 to deploy the protocol widely. Discrete-event simulations were conducted to survey the performance of the proposed scheme. The simulation results show that the scheme has better performance than the compared approaches.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Changsha Institute of Technology, 410073, Changsha, P.R.: China

    Peng Wei & Lu Xicheng

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Peng Wei was born in 1973. He received the M.S. degree from the Changsha Institute of Technology in 1997, and is presently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science, Changsha Institute of Technology. He is working on routing and multicast in mobile wireless networks.

Lu Xicheng was born in 1946. He is currently a Professor and Ph.D. tutor at Changsha Institute of Technology. His research interests are advanced network technologies, parallel and distributed processing, etc. He is on the Board of the Chinese Journal of Computers.

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Peng, W., Lu, X. An approach to support IP multicasting in networks with mobile hosts. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 14, 529–538 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02951872

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