Abstract:Multicasting has not been widely adopted until now, due to lack of receiver or End User (EU) access control. We have developed the Internet Group Management Protocol with Access Control (IGMP-AC), an extended version of IGMPv3, which provides EU access control by incorporating the AAA framework into the existing multicast service model. Furthermore, IGMP-AC works as an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) lower layer, and thus, supports a variety of different authentication methods. IP multicast will face … Show more
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