Lightweight PIM - a new multicast routing protocol
[ 1 ] Katedra Sieci Telekomunikacyjnych i Komputerowych, Wydział Elektroniki i Telekomunikacji, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee
2014
scientific article
english
- IP multicast
- routing
- Protocol-Independent Multicast
- Lightweight PIM
EN Multicast holds out great promise to significantly reduce network load between the sender and a group of receivers by delivering a single data stream to many recipients. Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse Mode and its variant PIM Source-Specific Multicast (PIM SSM) are the most widely used IP multicast protocols. Protocols offer low latency data delivery capabilities with relatively high reliability and are characterized by large signaling overhead. This article presents a new multicast protocol, called Lightweight PIM (LPIM), tackling the main problem hindering widespread usage of IP multicast protocols, which is a large volume of signaling traffic. Given the existing usability of the PIM family protocols, a decision was made to base the new LPIM protocol on PIM SSM. The improvements used in LPIM lead to a considerable reduction of state data and signaling messages required by LPIM as compared with PIM SSM. Similar to its predecessor, LPIM is capable of handling large groups, although with significantly lower overhead.
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