Fundamentals of IP Multicast
Robert Rümmler, Alexander Gluhak, A.H. Aghvami · 2009
Chapter 2 introduces the fundamentals of IP multicast. The chapter provides an overview of the IP multicast service model as well as multicast addressing, followed by a review of the mechanisms for multicast address assignment and session announcement. Group management and routing for IP multicast are then described in detail. As a more advanced topic, protocols and mechanisms for reliable multicast delivery are detailed. Also, congestion and flow control for IP multicast are briefly touched upon, followed by a brief introduction of solutions that support multicast in a mobile environment