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Title:
The Case for a Multicast Session Layer
Author(s):
by
A. Swan and
L.A. Rowe
Affiliation:
Computer Science Division - EECS
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
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Abstract
The past decade has seen a great deal of effort invested
in developing multicast technology for the Internet.
Unfortunately, early excitement about multicast has given
way to frustration with the challenges of designing and
deploying a scalable multicast service.
The reaction to the slow deployment of multicast has been
an explosion in different implementation techniques designed
for specific applications.
None of these new services have been widely deployed.
As a result, multicast technology is complex
and confusing to application writers.
To address this complexity, we argue for development of
a multicast session layer.
By decoupling the service model and programming
interface from the underlying implementation, this
new layer simultaneously simplifies the development of
multicast applications and eases the deployment of new
multicast technology. We outline the case for a multicast
session layer and discuss principles for its design.
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