Multicast Sockets

Practical Guide for Programmers
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-55860-846-7
Verlag: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: The Practical Guides

Multicast Sockets: Practical Guide for Programmers is a hands-on, application-centric approach to multicasting (as opposed to a network-centric one) that is filled with examples, ideas, and experimentation. Each example builds on the last to introduce multicast concepts, frameworks, and APIs in an engaging manner that does not burden the reader with lots of theory and jargon. The book is an introduction to multicasting but assumes that the reader has a background in network programming and is proficient in C or Java. After reading the book, you will have a firm grasp on how to write a multicast program.



- Author team of instructor and application programmer is reflected in this rich instructional and practical approach to the subject material
- Only book available that provides a clear, concise, application-centric approach to programming multicast applications and covers several languages-C, Java, and C# on the.NET platform
- Covers important topics like service models, testing reachability, and addressing and scoping
- Includes numerous examples and exercises for programmers and students to test what they have learned

Zielgruppe

Software engineers, developers, application programmers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makofske, David

Almeroth, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction
1.1 Multicast Defined
1.2 Unicast vs. Multicast vs. Broadcast
1.3 The Multicast Tradeoff: Power/Flexibility vs. Complexity
1.4 An Overview of Multicast Protocols
1.5 Organization of this Book

2 Multicasting with C Sockets
2.1 UDP Sockets
2.2 Sending Multicast Packets in C
2.3 Receiving Multicast Packets in C
2.4 A Sample Run of Sender and Receiver(s)
2.5 C and Source Specific Multicast
2.6 WinSock Modifications

3 Multicasting with Java
3.1 The Java MulticastSocket API
3.2 A Java Multicast Sender
3.3 Receiving Multicast Packets in Java
3.4 A Sample Run

4 Multicasting with.NET
4.1 The.NET Sockets Class
4.2 Sending Multicast Packets in C#
4.3 Receiving Multicast Packets in C#
4.4 A Sample Run: C# Multicast Sender and Receiver
4.5 C# and Source Specific Multicast
4.6 The C# UdpClient Class

5 Source Specific Multicast
5.1 Source Specific Multicast Defined
5.2 Advantages of SSM
5.3 Host Support for SSM
5.4 SSM Additions to the APIs

6 Multicast Addressing and Scoping
6.1 Scoping
6.2 Multicast Address Space
6.3 Selecting a Multicast Address
6.4 Java Multicast Address Scope Methods

7 Multicast Reachability and Scalability
7.1 Multicast Reachability
7.2 Multicast Ping
7.3 Multicast Scalability
7.4 MPing with Receiver-based Congestion Control

8 Application Layer Multicast and Reflectors
8.1 Introduction
8.2 A Multicast Reflector in Java

9 Summarizing Lessons Learned

A Multicast History and Protocols
B Summary of Multicast API by Language

Über Autor(innen)

Makofske, David
David Makofske has over ten years experience as a software engineer and consultant, with an emphasis on IP network and web development. He received his Masters degree in computer science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is currently a senior solutions architect at Akamai Technologies.

Almeroth, Kevin
Dr. Kevin Almeroth is an associate professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research interests include computer networks and protocols, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and performance evaluation. He has been working on multicast since the early 1990s when it was first deployed on the Internet. In addition to his research, Dr. Almeroth is an active participant in several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups, has helped manage multicast for Networld+Interop as part of the NOC team, and is the multicast working group chair for Internet2.