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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation
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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation

by Qing Li, Jinmei Tatuya, Keiichi Shima
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1008 pages
35h 43m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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2.5 Code Introduction 131
to IPv6 [RFC3956] eliminates the scalability issue with the general distribution mechanism by
embedding the address of the RP into the corresponding IPv6 multicast address. But it causes
another limitation in that the RP address must be in a specific form to be embedded in the
multicast address.
Meanwhile, applications such as Internet TV and Internet Radio based on IP multicasting
have the characteristic of having a single packet source. In such cases, if a single distribution
tree can be established from the source to the leaf nodes, an RP is not necessary in the first
place.
Revised multicast specifications can provide such ...
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ISBN: 9780080489308