| Date | : | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
| Speaker | : | Andrey Ermolinskiy |
| Affiliation | : | UC Berkeley CS |
| Talk Title | : | Free Riding Multicast |
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In this talk, we will present Free Riding Multicast (FRM) - a new approach to inter-domain network-level multicast. The many years of research into multicast routing have led to a generally pessimistic view that the complexity of multicast routing, and inter-domain multicast routing in particular, can only be overcome by restricting the service model (as in single-source multicast). FRM is a new approach that we hope will lead to a reevaluation of this commonly held view. Our approach exploits current technology trends that endow routers with significant storage and computational capabilities and offers several advantages over existing solutions, in particular with regards to protocol complexity and management. FRM uses a form of source-based routing and can be implemented as a simple extension to the Border Gateway Protocol. In this talk, we will describe the overall design of FRM, discuss the underlying assumptions and tradeoffs, and present our Linux XORP-based implementation of FRM.