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„Preliminary Implementation of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Protocol for Unicast and Multicast” Host Publication: Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet Authors: A. Gabor, V. Dobrota, K. Steenhaut and T. Blaga Publication Date: May. 2008 Number of Pages: 4
Abstract: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a
flexible protocol, relatively simple and useful for unicast
transmissions, but it is too complex for some applications.
Therefore it will be rarely used with all its features and in
many cases several parts will be eliminated. The proposed
BFD implementation, called mBFD, is written in C for
Linux, being an update of Tom Phelan's solution (Sonus
Networks). Although it is a part of a complex project
developed at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the current version
is a standalone program, but it could be integrated soon as a
software module for multicast routing protocols. It will
fasten their convergence, by decreasing the detection time
from few minutes down to 1DŽ seconds. Performances could
be even better because the transmission periods and
detection multipliers make the detection time as low as few
milliseconds.
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