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IP multicast is best-known for its bandwidth conservation and lower resource utilization. The classical multicast model makes it impossible to restrict access to authorized End Users (EU) or paying receivers and to forward data originated by an authorized sender(s) only. Without…

We consider the problem of multicasting multimedia data in a collection of heterogeneous networks. The heterogeneity emphasizes the difference in signaling protocols (signaling heterogeneity), difference in resource-reservation procedures, and difference in addressing schemes in…