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Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method

Romdhani, Imed; Yassin Al-Dubai, Ahmed

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Abstract

IP multicast is an efficient method for distributing multimedia content to a large number of receivers while saving the network bandwidth and reducing processing overhead on the source side. However, current IP multicast deployment figure is still far away behind the expectations of both internet service and content providers due to several deployment complexities. In particular, multicast routers
cannot trigger automatically a unidirectional or a bidirectional multicast routing protocol unless they are manually configured to use a specific routing protocol for a predetermined pool of IP multicast addresses. To limit flooding multicast content, each multicast group is identified by a specific scope. With such scope, the access control rights of senders and receivers access are not properly defined. To ease multicast router dynamic auto-configuration and access control check, we propose a new integrated multicast addressing and access
control method'. In our new method, we define a new expanded scope filed for IPv6, which enables a plurality of hierarchical distribution scopes to be embedded simultaneously within the multicast address. In addition, in the new scope format, the access rights are encoded for each distribution scope with respect to sending and receiving
permissions.

Citation

Romdhani, I., & Yassin Al-Dubai, A. (2009, July). Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method. Presented at 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Start Date Jul 5, 2009
End Date Jul 8, 2009
Online Publication Date Aug 18, 2009
Publication Date Aug 18, 2009
Deposit Date Feb 3, 2010
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 649-654
Series ISSN 1530-1346
Book Title 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
ISBN 9781424446728
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/iscc.2009.5202288
Keywords IP Multicast; Many-to-Many; access control; multicast routing and IPv6;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3473






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