Destination management on explicit multicast: multicast destination management by the application layer, for the kind of multicast to use a list of the destination addresses in the packet

摘要

Explicit Multicast specifies destination addresses by the list of unicast addresses in the IP header, and does not need multicast routing table because routers can deride the route to forward with unicast routing table. Instead of this, Explicit Multicast needs destination management to provide the sender with the list of addresses of the receivers. However, researchers have not discussed about it yet because routing management hides it in usual multicast. To solve this problem, we defined destination management without routing management. Next, we designed Explicit Multicast destination management system, and mounted it on MDO6 (Multiple Destination Option on IPv6) which is our prototype of Explicit Multicast on IPv6. And we could change the set of receivers dynamically while multicasting, equal to usual multicast. In this paper, we report these result.