Causal multicast is required for several distributed applications. In a mobile computing environment, it is especially important for applications that involve human interactions from several locations, for example, teleconferencing. In this paper, we present a causal multicast algorithm in which the message overhead is independent of the number of mobile hosts, and which can handle connections/disconnections easily. It also handles dynamically changing groups. The algorithm is suitable for a mobile computing environment.
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