Where is Multicast Today? (An introduction to the Editorial Note by Neumann, Roca and Walsh on "Large Scale Content Distribution Protocols")
Ernst W. Biersack, Sophia Antipolis · 2005
Multicast has been a very active area of research in the nineties. Multicast is uniquely qualied to deliver data in a scalable and ecient manner to a large number of receivers. Steve Deering in his thesis showed how to support multicast