IP Multicast with Applications to IPTV and Mobile DVB-H

Preface. About the Author. 1 INTRODUCTION TO IP MULTICAST. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Why Multicast Protocols are Wanted/Needed. 1.3 Basic Multicast Protocols and Concepts. 1.4 IPTV and DVB H Applications. 1.5 Course of Investigation. Appendix 1.A: Multicast IETF Request for Comments. Appendix 1.B: Multicast Bibliography. 2 MULTICAST ADDRESSING FOR PAYLOAD. 2.1 IP Multicast Addresses. 2.2 Layer 2 Multicast Addresses. 2.2.1 Ethernet MAC Address Mapping. 2.3 MPEG Layer Addresses. 3 MULTICAST PAYLOAD FORWARDING. 3.1 Multicasting on a LAN Segment. 3.2 Multicasting between Network Segments. 3.3 Multicast Distribution Trees. 3.4 Multicast Forwarding: Reverse Path Forwarding. 3.5 Multicast Forwarding: Center Based Tree Algorithm. 3.6 Implementing IP Multicast in a Network. 4 DYNAMIC HOST REGISTRATION INTERNET GROUP MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL. 4.1 IGMP Messages. 4.2 IGMPv3 Messages. 4.3 IGMP Operation. Appendix 4.A: Protocol Details for IGMPv2. Appendix 4.B: IGMP Snooping Switches. Appendix 4.C: Example of Router Configurations. 5 MULTICAST ROUTING SPARSE MODE PROTOCOLS: PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT MULTICAST. 5.1 Introduction to PIM. 5.2 PIM SM Details. 6 MULTICAST ROUTING SPARSE MODE PROTOCOLS: CORE BASED TREES. 6.1 Motivation 126. 6.2 Basic Operation. 6.3 CBT Components and Functions. 6.4 Core Router Discovery. 6.5 Protocol Specification Details. 6.6 CBT Version 3. 7 MULTICAST ROUTING DENSE MODE PROTOCOLS: PIM DM. 7.1 Overview. 7.2 Basic PIM DM Behavior. 7.3 Protocol Specification. 8 OTHER DENSE MODE MULTICAST ROUTING PROTOCOLS: DVMRP AND MOSPF. 8.1 Distance Vector Multicast Algorithm. 8.2 Multicast OSPF. 9 IP MULTICASTING IN IPv6 ENVIRONMENTS. 9.1 Opportunities Offered by IPv6. 9.2 Introductory Overview of IPv6. 9.3 Migration and Coexistence. 9.4 Multicast with IPv6. 10 MULTICAST LISTENER DISCOVERY. 10.1 Overview of MLDv1. 10.2 Message Format. 10.3 Protocol Description. 10.4 Node State Transition Diagram. 10.5 Router State Transition Diagram. 10.6 Overview of MLDv2. 10.7 Source Filtering.

Daniel Minoli has many years' experience providing telecommunications, networking, and IT architecture guidance and solutions for such organizations as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Bell Telephone Laboratories, ITT, Prudential Securities, Bell Communications Research (Bellcore/Telcordia), AT&T, Capital One Financial, SES Americom, New York University, Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Société Générale de Financement de Québec. An author of numerous core references on information technology, telecommunications, and data communications, he has also written columns for Computerworld, Network World, and Network Computing.