Minimizing the Number of IGMP Report Messages for Receiver-Driven Layered Video Multicasting

To manage multicast group in wired or wireless domain, the hosts need to send internet group management protocol (IGMP) report message when they are queried by the multicast routers. In fact, the bandwidth of wireless domain and mobile nodes' battery power are scarce resources; therefore, it can be big burden for the receiver-driven layered video multicasting (RLVM) receiving mobile hosts to follow the conventional report sending phenomenon, where a host needs to send a report message for subscribing each of the video layers. In this paper, we propose a mechanism for reducing the number of IGMP report messages for RLVM receiving hosts. The protocol overhead and efficiency are evaluated, and compared with conventional IGMPs. Our results show that applying proposed idea in IGMP the number of report messages can be minimized significantly for RLVM services.

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