Authors:
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross
Chapter:
The Network Layer
Exercise:
Problems
Question:53 | ISBN:9780132856201 | Edition: 6
Question
We saw in Section 4.7 that there is no network-layer protocol that can be used to identify the hosts participating in a multicast group. Given this, how can multicast applications learn the identities of the hosts that are participating in a multicast group?
Answer
Consider the Section 4.7 in the text book.
Assume there is no network-layer protocol that can be used to identify the hosts participating in a multicast group.
Then, the following stes are multicast applications learn the identities of the hosts that are participating in a multicast group:
- The End-system multicast process is used to apply the peer-to-peer systems for the distribution of the application.
- The internet network consists a unicast path between two end-systems instead of routers.
- Then, the multicast applications are identify to distribute the multicast data to all the other nodes in the multicast group..