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Summary: Practical Utilities for Monitoring Multicast Service
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Pavan Namburi
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas - 75083
Kamil Sarac
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas - 75083
Kevin Almeroth
Department of Computer Science
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California - 93106
Abstract-- Monitoring has become one of the key issues for
the successful deployment of IP multicast in the Internet. During
the last decade, several tools and systems have been developed to
monitor several different characteristics of IP multicast. In this
paper, we focus on one specific monitoring task: monitoring end-
to-end multicast service availability in the inter-domain. This task
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