Mobile multicast is important for the emerging applications such as mobile video or audio conference and mobile IPTV.Some mobile multicast schemes have been proposed in the past few years, but most of them study the r...Mobile multicast is important for the emerging applications such as mobile video or audio conference and mobile IPTV.Some mobile multicast schemes have been proposed in the past few years, but most of them study the reconstruc-tion of multicast delivery tree, and few consider the group membership management for mobile sub-scribers.In this paper, we propose a new mobile multicast method based on the Two-Hop Multicast Listener Discovery(THMLD) protocol which pro-vides the mobile multicast membership manage-ment function by forwarding the traditional MLD messages to its neighboring subnets.To evaluate its performance, we analyze the THMLD and set up the simulation platform to compare it with the several traditional mobile multicast methods.The results show that THMLD can reduce the multicast join time, and the THMLD-based mobile multicast method can reduce the multicast join delay at a cost of increasing additional multicast maintenance cost.展开更多
基金supported in part by 973 program under con-tract 2007CB307101National High Technology of China ("863 program") under contract No. 2008AA01A326 National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60870015 and No. 60833002
文摘Mobile multicast is important for the emerging applications such as mobile video or audio conference and mobile IPTV.Some mobile multicast schemes have been proposed in the past few years, but most of them study the reconstruc-tion of multicast delivery tree, and few consider the group membership management for mobile sub-scribers.In this paper, we propose a new mobile multicast method based on the Two-Hop Multicast Listener Discovery(THMLD) protocol which pro-vides the mobile multicast membership manage-ment function by forwarding the traditional MLD messages to its neighboring subnets.To evaluate its performance, we analyze the THMLD and set up the simulation platform to compare it with the several traditional mobile multicast methods.The results show that THMLD can reduce the multicast join time, and the THMLD-based mobile multicast method can reduce the multicast join delay at a cost of increasing additional multicast maintenance cost.
