METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR RELIABLE LOW-BANDWIDTH INFORMATION DELIVERY ACROSS MIXED-MODE UNICAST AND MULTICAST NETWORKS

摘要

A system and method are provided wherein information is disseminated using a reliable IP multicast network implementation coupled with dynamically assigned proxy nodes serving as zonal aggregation points. These nodes share information with each other over the reliable IP multicast network, augmenting this function with a reliable point-to-point communication infrastructure between proxy nodes in those instances where IP multicast is not available or prone to error.