"IP Multicasting"
by Marcus Goncalves and Kitty Niles
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0079137911/wendysmallInternet Protocol (IP) multicasting makes the mBone run, and
it's central to all sorts of content-push technologies, real
and imagined, including video broadcast and voice
conferencing. In "IP Multicasting," celebrated IP experts
Marcus Goncalves and Kitty Niles--they wrote the definitive
book on IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6)--explain how
multicasting works from both academic and practical
perspectives. With lots of attention to the two versions of
the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and the
particular routing problems that arise in multicasting
situations, the authors provide you with the information you
need to design and implement IP multicasting systems for
both producers and consumers of digital content.