Matthias Wählisch, Matthias Wählisch, Thomas C. Schmidt, Stig Venaas – 2011
Group communication services exist in a large variety of flavors, and
technical implementations at different protocol layers. Multicast
data distribution is most efficiently performed on the lowest
available layer, but a heterogeneous deployment status of multicast
technologies throughout the Internet requires an adaptive service
binding at runtime. Today, it is difficult to write an application
that runs everywhere and at the same time makes use of the most
efficient multicast service available in the network. Facing
robustness requirements, developers are frequently forced to use a
stable, upper layer protocol controlled by the application itself.
This document describes a common multicast API that is suitable for
transparent communication in underlay and overlay, and grants access
to the different multicast flavors. It proposes an abstract naming
by multicast URIs and discusses mapping mechanisms between different
namespaces and distribution technologies. Additionally, it describes
the application of this API for building gateways that interconnect
current multicast domains throughout the Internet.
Titel
A Common API for Transparent Hybrid Multicast
Verfasser
Matthias Wählisch, Matthias Wählisch, Thomas C. Schmidt, Stig Venaas
@techreport{draft-irtf-common-api,
author = {Matthias W{\"a}hlisch and Thomas C. Schmidt and Stig Venaas},
title = {{A Common API for Transparent Hybrid Multicast}},
institution = {IRTF},
year = {2011},
type = {IRTF Internet Draft -- work in progress},
number = {01},
month = {March},
abstract = {Group communication services exist in a large variety of flavors, and technical implementations at different protocol layers. Multicast data distribution is most efficiently performed on the lowest available layer, but a heterogeneous deployment status of multicast technologies throughout the Internet requires an adaptive service binding at runtime. Today, it is difficult to write an application that runs everywhere and at the same time makes use of the most efficient multicast service available in the network. Facing robustness requirements, developers are frequently forced to using a stable, upper layer protocol controlled by the application itself. This document describes a common multicast API that is suitable for transparent communication in underlay and overlay, and grants access to the different multicast flavors. It proposes an abstract naming by multicast URIs and discusses mapping mechanisms between different namespaces and distribution technologies. Additionally, it describes the application of this API for building gateways that interconnect current multicast domains throughout the Internet.},
theme = {p2p|prog},
url = {http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-samrg-common-api}
}