Although multicast does not guarantee delivery of data to all recipients, it is useful for applications such as streaming audio or video on local area networks. However, reliable delivery must be added to the multicast protocol for this to be true. This talk describes the project, key technologies, applications, innovations and plans.
Technical report is available.
Bio Phil Rosenzweig is Director of the Boston Center for Networking in Sun Microsystems Laboratories. He leads an advanced development group that focuses on new network protocols and services. Current projects include developing enabling technology for reliable IP multicast and a new public key security infrastructure. For the previous six years, he led Sun's PC Networking group where he was responsible for the PC-NFS product family of software products that provide connectivity between PCs and UNIX systems. Prior to Sun, Phil was Director of Software at Xyplex, where he helped develop one of the first multi-protocol communications servers.