组播技术综述

Survey of Multicast Technologies

组播通信技术提供了一种点对点或多点对多点的数据传输模型 ,作为下一代 Internet应用的重要技术 ,组播相关技术研究引起了广泛关注 .本文从分布式系统特点出发 ,分析了组播研究的内容和特点 ,描述了组播设计所涉及的技术及难点 。

Multicast communication provides a one to many or many to many data delivery model. As a key supporting technology of the next generation Internet applications, multicast relevant technologies are of interest in the research community. This paper analyses the characteristics of multicast research from distributed system perspective, describes the techniques and difficulties involved in multicast design, and summarizes current work and relevant evolution.