Everything about Multicast address

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Multicast addressA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Computer NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: A case for end system multicast (keynote address)Cited 282 times
4. Go sideways: IPv6 addressA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: IP addressA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A case for end system multicast (keynote address)

  Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay G. Rao, Hui Zhang · 2000 · ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 282 citations

• Distributed multicast address management in the global Internet

  S. Pejhan, A. Eleftheriadis, D. Anastassiou · 1995 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 16 citations

• Session directories and scalable Internet multicast address allocation

  Mark Handley · 1998 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 10 citations

• Survey of multicast address handling techniques for Ethernet communication controllers

  Larry Hughes · 1989 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 3 citations

• The multicast address allocation problem: theory and practice

  Daniel Zappala, Virginia Lo, Chris GauthierDickey · 2004 · Computer Networks · 2 citations

• Simulation and analytical approaches for estimating the performability of a multicast address dynamic allocation mechanism

  Tien Van Do, Ram Chakka · 2010 · Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory · 1 citations

• Multicast Address Allocation Based on Interest Constraints

  Yun Xia Yu, Wei Qun Han, Xiao Xuan Tian · 2013 · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 0 citations

• Multicast address management and connection control based on hierarchical autonomous structure

  Jian Wang, Fuyan Zhang · 1999 · Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer NetworksAndrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall · 1981
• Computer networkingJames F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross · 1900
• Unix System Administration HandbookEvi Nemeth, Garth Snyder · 1989
• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• Internet Core ProtocolsEric A. Hall, Eric Hall · 2000
• Communication networksJean Walrand · 2010
• TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
• 📕LTE for public safetyRainer Liebhart · 2015

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