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Multicast Sockets: Practical Guide for Programmers is a hands-on, application-centric approach to multicasting (as opposed to a network-centric one) that is filled with examples, ideas, and experimentation. Each example builds on the last to introduce multicast concepts, frameworks, and APIs in an e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Makofske, David B.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Almeroth, Kevin C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ©2003.
Series:Morgan Kaufmann practical guides series.
Subjects:
Multicasting (Computer networks)
Multidiffusion (Réseaux d'ordinateurs)
COMPUTERS > Networking > General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.