Beschreibung:
The Internet is quickly becoming the backbone for the worldwide information society of the future. Point-to-point communication dominates the network today, however, group communication--using multicast technology--will rapidly gain importance as digital, audio, and video transmission, push technology for the Web, and distribution of software updates to millions of end users become ubiquitous.
1. Introduction 2.The Basics of Group Communication 3. Multicast Routing 4. Quality of Service 5. Multicast in ATM Networks 6. Transport Protocols 7. MBone--the Multicast Backbone of the Internet 8. Outlook