@techreport{boudani-gxcast-02,
    number =    {draft-boudani-gxcast-02},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-boudani-gxcast/02/},
    author =    {Ali Boudani},
    title =     {{GXcast: Generalized Explicit Multicast Routing Protocol}},
    pagetotal = 7,
    year =      2004,
    month =     oct,
    day =       11,
    abstract =  {Recently several multicast mechanisms were proposed that scale better with the number of multicast groups than traditional multicast does. These proposals are known as small group multicast (SGM) or explicit multicast (Xcast). Explicit multicast protocols, such as the Xcast protocol, encode the list of group members in the Xcast header of every packet. If the number of members in a group increases, routers may need to fragment an Xcast packet. Fragmented packets may not be identified as Xcast packets by routers. In this paper, we show that the Xcast protocol does not support the IP fragmentation and we show also that avoiding fragmentation induces hard-coded limits inside the protocol itself in terms of group size. First, we describe the Xcast protocol, the Xcast+ protocol (which is an extension of Xcast) and we compare these two protocols with traditional multicast protocols.We propose then a generalized version of the Xcast protocol, called GXcast, intended to permit the Xcast packets fragmentation and to support the increasing in the number of members in a multicast group.},
}