The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...

Multicasting (and broadcasting which is also discussed in this article) provides a means to direct a single packet to more than one host. Special addresses are defined for this purpose and are handled ...

IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4 with features that better suit current and foreseeable network demands, including the following: IPv6 increases the number of address bits by a factor of 4, from ...