Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses

Romdhani, Imed; Al-Dubai, Ahmed; Kellil, Mounir

Abstract

IP multicast is an efficient and scalable network layer delivering method for multimedia content to a large number of receivers across the Internet. It saves the network bandwidth and optimizes the processing overhead of the source. However, current IP multicast deployment is still facing many deployment complexities. In particular, the duality and the strong relationship between multicast addressing and routing along with the absence of an integrated multicast access control security mechanism have prevented a broader deployment of multicasting over large and public network infrastructures such as the Internet. To solve multicast scoping and autonomic multicast routing triggering issues, we propose a new scope based and hierarchical multicast control and routing protocol . Our approach introduces a new multicast addressing scheme that embeds simultaneously a plurality of hierarchical scopes and associates each scope with a specific access control and routing method. We evaluate the performance of our solution with respect to access control overhead and we analyse its strengths and limitations compared to related works.

Citation

Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A., & Kellil, M. (2009, September). Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses. Presented at 2009 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

• Conference Name: 2009 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops
• Start Date: Sep 22, 2009
• End Date: Sep 25, 2009
• Online Publication Date: Dec 28, 2009
• Publication Date: Dec 28, 2009
• Deposit Date: Jan 31, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 31, 2011
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 228-235
• Book Title: International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, 2009. ICPPW '09.
• ISBN: 9781424449231
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icppw.2009.81
• Keywords: IP multi-cast; many-to-many; access control; multicast roouting; IPv6
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3904
• Contract Date: Jan 31, 2011