Directed trees in multicast routing

• Author(s): Nicolau, Maria João ; Costa, António ; Santos, Alexandre ; Freitas, Vasco
• Date: 2003
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/2342
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Multicast routing; Directed trees
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Traditional multicast routing protocols use RPF (Reverse Path Forwarding) concept to build multicast trees. This concept is based upon the idea that an actual delivery path to a node is the reverse of the path from this node to the source. This concept fits well in symmetric environments, but in a routing environment where Quality of Service is considered the guarantee that a symmetrical path will exist between two network addresses is broken. Available network resources impose specific Quality of Service asymmetries, therefore reverse path routing may not be used. In this paper a new multicast routing strategy is proposed, enabling directed trees establishment, instead of reverse path ones. This new strategy, DTMP- Directed Trees Multicast Routing, is then implemented and simulated using Network Simulator. Simulation results, driven from several scenarios are presented, analyzed and compared with PIM-SM.