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Multicasting is a means of one-to-many communication. The most common form of communication is one-to-one. The well-known client-server model belongs to this category. The world wide web is a classic example of unicast communication where the client (browser) communicates with a server to retrieve various types of information. On the other extreme is broadcast communication which is one-to-all by definition. Radio and television are typical examples of broadcast communication. Multicast communication lies in between unicast and broadcast communication in the sense that multicast is one-to-some communication.
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Paul, S. (1998). Multicasting Fundamentals. In: Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5713-5_2
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