Summary: MHealth: A Real­Time Multicast Tree Visualization and Monitoring Tool \Lambda
David B. Makofske Kevin C. Almeroth
Starburst Software y Dept of Computer Science
150 Baker Avenue Extension University of California
Concord, MA 01743­2117 Santa Barbara, CA 93106­5110
david makofske@starburstsoftware.com almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu
Abstract
The exponential growth of the Internet combined with the
increasing popularity of streaming audio and video content
are pushing Internet bandwidth constraints to their limits.
Methods of managing and more efficiently utilizing the ex­
isting bandwidth are becoming increasingly vital. Multicas­
ting Internet content, especially streaming audio and video,
can provide enormous bandwidth savings. A decade of ef­
forts at deploying multicast combined with the rising need
for better traffic management for bandwidth­hungry audio
and video applications has led to significant momentum for
multicast implementation. One of the remaining barriers
to widespread adoption of multicast in the Internet is the
lack of multicast monitoring and debugging tools. To ad­

Source: Almeroth, Kevin C. - Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara

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