Between underlay and overlay: On deployable, efficient, mobility-agnostic group communication services

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss problems, requirements and current trends for deploying group communication in real‐world scenarios from an integrated perspective.Design/methodology/approach – The Hybrid Shared Tree is introduced – a new architecture and routing approach to combine network – and subnetwork‐layer multicast services in end‐system domains with transparent, structured overlays on the inter‐domain level.Findings – The paper finds that The Hybrid Shared Tree solution is highly scalable and robust and offers provider‐oriented features to stimulate deployment.Originality/value – A straightforward perspective is indicated in the paper for a mobility‐agnostic routing layer for future use.

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