Summary: INTEGRATING IP MULTICASTING IN
STANDARD NETWORK MANAGEMENT
PROTOCOLS
Ehab Al­Shaer Yongning Tang
Multimedia Networking Research Laboratory
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60604
(ehab,ytang)@cs.depaul.edu
Abstract Supporting multi­point group communications in the network manage­
ment platform is essential for improving scalability and responsiveness
of management applications. With the deployment of IP multicasting
as the standard infrastructure for multi­point group communications in
the Internet, the integration of IP multicasting in SNMP becomes signif­
icantly important to achieve these goals. This paper presents a flexible,
efficient and easy­to­integrate framework for integrating IP Multicast in
standard SNMP agents. The proposed framework enables managers to
re­configure the agents' group membership (e.g., join and leave) and the
communication model (e.g., one­to­many, many­to­one and many­to­
many) dynamically based on the application requirements. This frame­

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