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The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) is a protocol framework and
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software toolkit for reliable multicasting data objects. A primary
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design goal of MDP is to provide a reliable multicast protocol approach
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which is suitable for reliable dissemination of data over both wireless
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and wired networks.
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MDP software has been demonstrated across a range of network architecture
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and heterogeneous conditions including; the worldwide Internet MBone,
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bandwidth and routing asymmetric network connections, high delay satellite
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networks, and mobile, radio networks. MDP version 2, the latest software
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release and ongoing work, integrates numerous multicast protocol advances
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including highly robust, packet-based erasure correction techniques and
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adaptive group timing mechanisms.
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The present MDPv2 software release has a defined API library and several
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example working applications including a multicast file transfer applications
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and a very basic multicast chat application. To learn more and/or download
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the software see the following sections.
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