Admission control mechanism for multicast receivers

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2004-12-30

2010-11-16

Mills, Donald L (Department: 2462)

Multiplex communications

Data flow congestion prevention or control

Control of data admission to the network

C370S390000, C370S432000

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07835276

ABSTRACT:
A method and system for controlling admission of an end user to a multicast channel over a network implementing a source filtering protocol. Incoming packet traffic received by an edge router is snooped and, when a request to join a multicast channel is received, the traffic is analyzed. Any service policy associated with the traffic class is found and applied to packet traffic from the requesting user. The actions include accepting membership in a group associated with a multicast channel and pushing the packets to the end user. If the action is to deny membership, then the multicast packets are prevented from reaching the end user. In addition information is logged and may be used for billing purposes or for accumulating marketing or other such information. Also, the actions may be to limit the number of routing states, by denying admittance to a groups once a limit number of requests to join, or other such parameter, is reached. Such limiting will substantially prevent DOS attacks on a multicast router.

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