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CONFIDENTIAL
26-Jan-04
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IP Multicast Components
•Group Membership Protocol - enables hosts to dynamically join/leave multicast groups. Membership info is communicated to nearest router •Multicast Routing Protocol - enables routers to build a delivery tree between the sender(s) and receivers of a multicast group
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 Senders
 Receivers
 Group
 Membership Protocol
Multicast Routing Protocol
 join
 Delivery tree
 Pruned branch
 join