Any-source multicast (ASM) is the older and more usual form of multicast where multiple senders can be on the same group/channel, as opposed to source-specific...

Source-specific multicast (SSM) is a method of delivering multicast packets in which the only packets that are delivered to a receiver are those originating...

networking, multicast is a type of group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can...

destination computers simultaneously: Multicast Source Discovery Protocol, Multicast BGP, Protocol Independent Multicast. Multicast routing is a method of transmitting...

Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) is a family of multicast routing protocols for Internet Protocol (IP) networks that provide one-to-many and many-to-many...

multicast routing protocol such as Multicast Source Discovery Protocol or Protocol Independent Multicast to ensure loop-free forwarding of multicast packets...

multicast for a designated network service. Multicast addressing can be used in the link layer (layer 2 in the OSI model), such as Ethernet multicast...

Source-Specific Multicast where only a single source is allowed, i.e. IPTV. Another type of multicast could be Any-Source Multicast but it is not so...

DNS servers. It uses IP multicast User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets and is implemented by the Apple Bonjour and open-source Avahi software packages...

particular multicast address. Group-and-source-specific queries Allow the router to determine if any systems desire reception of messages sent to a multicast group...

Almost any unicast address can be employed as an anycast address. A multicast address is also used by multiple hosts that acquire the multicast address...

vision Algorithmic state machine, for designing finite state machines Any-source multicast asm.js, a subset of the Javascript programming language Assembly...

broadcast addressing and replaces it with multicast to the specially defined all-nodes multicast address. A multicast address is associated with a group of...

of lesser-known features of macOS, such as mDNSResponder, which is the multicast DNS responder and a core component of the Bonjour networking technology...

The Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) is a protocol based on the Domain Name System (DNS) packet format that allows both IPv4 and IPv6 hosts...

Reliable multicast is any computer networking protocol that provides a reliable sequence of packets to multiple recipients simultaneously, making it suitable...

A digital multicast television network, also known as a diginet or multichannel, is a type of national television service designed to be broadcast terrestrially...

the source and B is the unknown destination Example of Multicast traffic to five destinations Broadcast traffic is used to transmit a message to any reachable...

A multicast session requires a "point-to-multipoint" connection from a source node to multiple destination nodes. The source node is known as the root...

automatically has available a set of globally routable source-specific multicast groups for multicast applications. IPv6 hosts configure themselves automatically...

quality of service. Overlay multicast is also known as End System or Peer-to-Peer Multicast. High bandwidth multi-source multicast among widely distributed...

holds the unicast routes that are active. Multicast routing may require an additional routing table for multicast routes. Several routing protocols e.g....

not yet recognize multicast addresses. This was solved by IP tunneling. The first approach to IP tunneling used an IP Loose Source Route and Record (LSRR)...

consists of broadcast live television that is streamed over the Internet (multicast) — in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite...

within a group. In networking this can be accomplished using broadcast or multicast. This is in contrast with the point-to-point method in which each sender...

many protocols using Real Time Streaming Protocol. Because it supports multicast, it is suitable for broadcast information such as in many kinds of service...

example, based on a configurable list of accepted multicast MAC addresses. This is called multicast addressing. The IEEE has built in several special...

scope of the broadcast, which is generally an entire network subnet. Multicast delivers a message to a group of nodes that have expressed interest in...

on a port-by-port basis.: Clause 16.1  Multicast transmissions use IP multicast addressing, for which multicast group addresses are defined for IPv4 and...

(224 + 220 + 216 ≈ 18 million addresses) and multicast addresses (228 ≈ 268 million addresses). IPv4 addresses may be represented in any notation expressing a 32-bit...