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Broadcasting and Multicasting

Communication Patterns

Broadcast pattern
One-to-all communication; one source sends the same message to all destinations.
Multicast pattern
One-to-many communication; one source sends same message to multiple destinations.

Avoid multiple unicasts by utilizing multicast routing schemes!

Author: Wolfgang Schreiner
Last modification: November 15, 1996