Patent ID: 8855115
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for routing a multicast message comprising the steps of assigning randomly a probability number for the multicast message; receiving at a node, a multicast message including at least a message, a source identifier, a sequence number, a time-to-live value and a multicast group destination; determining if the multicast group destination is in a multicast forwarding table; discarding the multicast message if the multicast group destination is not in the multicast forwarding table; determining in a multicast packet cache table if the multicast message has been previously received; adding the multicast message to the multicast packet cache table if it is determined that the message has not been previously received; determining if the node that received the multicast message is a multicast receiving node or a forwarding node; if the node is determined to be a multicast receiving node: