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   <front>
      <title>Optimized Use of BIER in AIML Data Centers</title>
      <author initials="Z. J." surname="Zhang" fullname="Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang">
         <organization>Juniper Networks</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="X." surname="Xu" fullname="Xiaohu Xu">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="Z." surname="Zhang" fullname="Zheng Zhang">
         <organization>ZTE</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="J." surname="Tantsura" fullname="Jeff Tantsura">
         <organization>Nvidia</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="A." surname="Mahale" fullname="Aditya Mahale">
         <organization>Cerebras</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="Q." surname="Zhang" fullname="Qihuan Zhang">
         <organization>Biren Technology</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="March" day="16" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   Use of multicast in AI Data Centers (AIDC) is getting attention for
   efficient large-scale distribution of the same data to many
   receivers, given the collectives like All2All and AllReduce.
   Emerging technologies like In Network Compute(INC) can also benefit
   from using in-network-distribution of the packets by offloading the
   distribution of the flows to the network.  Given the bursty nature of
   short-lived all2all flows, BIER is a very good multicast technology
   for AIDC because it does not need the per-establishment of the
   multicast tree states.  This document discusses further optimization
   of BIER use in AIDC or similar deployment scenarios, and updates
   RFC4604 by specifying an IGMP/MLD extension for sources to report
   receiver information to the First Hop Routers.  The extension can be
   useful and is only needed when the source cannot impose the BIER
   encapsulation.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-zzhang-bier-optimized-use-in-aidc-01" />
   
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