PIM-SM configuration and scalability on satellite unidirectional links
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Thamrin, A.H.; Izumiyama, H.; Kusumoto, H.
- Source
- 2003 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2003. Proceedings. Applications and the Internet workshops Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Symposium on. :27-30 2003
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Scalability
Satellites
Multicast protocols
Internet
Feeds
Costs
Routing protocols
Telecommunication traffic
Unicast
Tunneling
- Language
This paper considers satellite unidirectional links having a large number of nodes and discusses the PIM-SM configuration on these links if there is no separate multicast routing information base. Looking closely at the PIM-SM specification documents, we propose a PIM-SM configuration that enables multicast traffic to flow on unidirectional links. We also discuss the scalability of PIM-SM on satellite unidirectional links. We expect that the join/prune message suppression strategy is an important element for scaling PIM-SM on these links.