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Informationen zum Autor David Makofske has over ten years experience as a software engineer and consultant, with an emphasis on IP network and web development. He received his Masters degree in computer science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is currently a senior solutions architect at Akamai Technologies. Dr. Kevin Almeroth is an associate professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research interests include computer networks and protocols, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and performance evaluation. He has been working on multicast since the early 1990s when it was first deployed on the Internet. In addition to his research, Dr. Almeroth is an active participant in several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups, has helped manage multicast for Networld+Interop as part of the NOC team, and is the multicast working group chair for Internet2. Klappentext Multicast technology is rapidly being deployed in many enterprise and service provider networks to support applications such as audio and video conferencing! distance-learning! and many multimedia-related technologies. Zusammenfassung Introduces multicast concepts! frameworks! and APIs. This book offers an introduction to multicasting. It helps readers learn how to write a multicast program. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction 1.1 Multicast Defined 1.2 Unicast vs. Multicast vs. Broadcast 1.3 The Multicast Tradeoff: Power/Flexibility vs. Complexity 1.4 An Overview of Multicast Protocols 1.5 Organization of this Book 2 Multicasting with C Sockets 2.1 UDP Sockets 2.2 Sending Multicast Packets in C 2.3 Receiving Multicast Packets in C 2.4 A Sample Run of Sender and Receiver(s) 2.5 C and Source Specific Multicast 2.6 WinSock Modifications 3 Multicasting with Java 3.1 The Java MulticastSocket API 3.2 A Java Multicast Sender 3.3 Receiving Multicast Packets in Java 3.4 A Sample Run 4 Multicasting with .NET 4.1 The .NET Sockets Class 4.2 Sending Multicast Packets in C# 4.3 Receiving Multicast Packets in C# 4.4 A Sample Run: C# Multicast Sender and Receiver 4.5 C# and Source Specific Multicast 4.6 The C# UdpClient Class 5 Source Specific Multicast 5.1 Source Specific Multicast Defined 5.2 Advantages of SSM 5.3 Host Support for SSM 5.4 SSM Additions to the APIs 6 Multicast Addressing and Scoping 6.1 Scoping 6.2 Multicast Address Space 6.3 Selecting a Multicast Address 6.4 Java Multicast Address Scope Methods 7 Multicast Reachability and Scalability 7.1 Multicast Reachability 7.2 Multicast Ping 7.3 Multicast Scalability 7.4 MPing with Receiver-based Congestion Control 8 Application Layer Multicast and Reflectors 8.1 Introduction 8.2 A Multicast Reflector in Java 9 Summarizing Lessons Learned A Multicast History and Protocols B Summary of Multicast API by Language ...
