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With the deployment of native multicast in commercial networks, multicast is getting closer to becoming a ubiquitous service in the Internet. The success of this deployment largely depends on the availability of goodmanagemen t tools andsystems. In this paper, we focus on reachability monitoring as an important multicast management task. First, we provide a general architecture for multicast reachability monitoring systems andfo cus on three critical functions: agent configuration, monitoring and feedback collection. For each component, we provide a number of alternative approaches to implement the requiredfunctionality and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. Then, we focus on the feedback collection component. To a large extent, it determines the complexity andthe overheadof a monitoring system. We compare a number of alternative approaches for feedback collection using simulations andmak e suggestions on when to use each. We expect our work to provide insight into the issues and considerations in designing and developing multicast reachability monitoring systems.
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SaraƧ, K., Almeroth, K.C. (2001). Providing Scalable Many-to-One Feedback in Multicast Reachability Monitoring Systems. In: Al-Shaer, E.S., Pacifici, G. (eds) Management of Multimedia on the Internet. MMNS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2216. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45508-6_22
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