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Multimedia applications often involve one-to-many, or many-to-many, communication. These applications can be supported efficiently with network layer multicast. While multicast is a promising technology, monitoring multicast routing infrastructure and the performance of applications that use it presents challenges not found with unicast. In this paper we describe a monitoring architecture, and an implementation of the architecture, that uses application level monitoring to assess the performance of multicast-capable infrastructure. The architecture makes use of standards-based management technologies and allows both active and passive monitoring. The implementation has been tested extensively and provides a network operator with a network-wide view of multicast performance.
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- Multicast Tree
- Multicast Group
- Multicast Session
- Simple Network Management Protocol
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Chesterfield, J., Fenner, B., Breslau, L. (2002). Remote Multicast Monitoring Using the RTP MIB. In: Almeroth, K.C., Hasan, M. (eds) Management of Multimedia on the Internet. MMNS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2496. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45812-3_13
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