Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsAn Approach to Improve the State Scalability of Source Specific MulticastS. A. Al-Talib, B. M. Ali, S. KhatunProblem statement: Source Specific Multicast (SSM) is an acceptable solution for current multicast applications; since the driving applications to date are one to many, including Internet TV, distance learning, file distribution and streaming media. Approach: It was useful for billing, address allocation and security. SSM still had serious state scalability problem when there were a large number of simultaneous on-going … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2009 · 6,820 accessesView PDFCite