Avaliação de Protocolos Multicast

Avaliação de Protocolos Multicast: With the development of new computer network applications based on TCP/IP protocols we need to improve the performance of these protocols to match the new application demands. In order to provide these enhancements, research and developments on TCP/IP is under way for new mechanisms to reduce the use of bandwidth as much as possible. Accordingly, a new concept called multicast traffic has been developed to transmit data from one location to many others. This paper evaluates some multicast protocols that are being developed currently with respect to the routing mechanism focusing on the average delay time, the behavior of the routing tables, the use and overloading of the links. This allows to choose the most adequate protocol given the requirements of each topology of the network and the resources available.