Improving Scalability with the Use of the Overlay Multicast Protocol (OMP). (6th October 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Al-Misbahi, Hind O.; Al-Aama, Arwa Y.
• Is Part Of: International journal of internet protocol technology. Volume 4:Number 3(2009)
• Page Start: 182
• Page End: 192
• Publication Date: 2009-10-06
• Subjects: overlay multicast -- internet protocol -- MPLS -- PIM-SM -- protocol independent multicast-sparse mode -- PIM-SSM -- protocol independent multicast-source specific multicast -- multicasting scalability; File Transfer Protocol (Computer network protocol) -- Periodicals; Multicasting (Computer networks) -- Periodicals; 004.678
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8209

Abstract

Demands to increase network usage efficiency and scalability do exist. IP and overlay multicast provide multicasting services by enabling data to be sent to several recipients simultaneously over a network. Although MPLS, a high performance method for forwarding packets, has many benefits, implementation of multicast on MPLS still suffers from IP multicast limitations. This paper proposes the Overlay Multicast Protocol (OMP) in which the overlay approach is applied on MPLS networks to improve the scalability of multicasting. Comparisons of OMP with Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode and Protocol Independent Multicast-Source Specific Multicast are presented, showing improved scalability when using OMP.