JMU
IP Anycast and Multicast
An Introduction


Prof. David Bernstein
James Madison University

Computer Science Department
bernstdh@jmu.edu


Overview
Applications of Multicast
IP Anycast
IP Anycast - An Example
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IP Anycast - An Example (cont.)
Problems with IP Anycast
Approaches to Multicast
Multiple Unicast
IP Multicast
Group Management
Multicast Routing
Adding Reliability
Different Approaches to Reliabile Multicast