Evaluation Study of a Broadband Multicasting Service over a Gigabit Ethernet Delivery Network
Eleftherios Stergiou, Gerasimos C. Meletiou, Dimitris C. Vasiliadis, George E. Rizos, Spiridoula V. Margariti, Theodore E. Simos, George Psihoyios · AIP conference proceedings · 2008
Multicasting networks are usually implemented for delivering audio and video. Consequently, the performance evaluation of a reliable multicasting architecture is useful in active delivery systems. In this paper we analyze and present a broadband multicasting system under an Internet environment using a typical IP multicasting mechanism. The test‐bed multicasting scheme was based on both IGMP and MCOP protocols, where a Gigabit Ethernet was used as delivery network at client’s segment. The evaluation study provides measurements for the two most significant performance metrics, the required Bandwidth and the Round Trip Time (RTT) of a packet versus the number of multicasting clients over 2.4 Mbps multicasting service rate.