Abstract

This chapter discusses the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) multicasting. IP multicasting is one of the key technologies for the next generation of the Internet. In fact, IPv6 basic features such as the neighbor discovery protocol actively and effectively use multicasting of IPv6 core protocols implementation, “neighbor discovery and stateless address auto configuration.” Meantime, increasing network bandwidth makes applications such as video streaming more realistic, which then makes IP multicasting more important. Although the basic notion of multicasting is common to both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and IPv6, IPv6 multicasting brings several new characteristics based on operational experiences gained from the IPv4 counterpart. This chapter explains the basic technical background of IP multicasting, focusing on protocols specific to IPv6. It includes both the host-to-router protocol and multicast routing protocols. The Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) protocol is the multicast group management protocol for IPv6 and is used to exchange group information between multicast hosts and routers.

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