Stateless multicast switching in software defined networks

@article{Reed2016StatelessMS,
  title={Stateless multicast switching in software defined networks},
  author={Martin J. Reed and Mays F. Al-Naday and Nikolaos Thomos and Dirk Trossen and George P. Petropoulos and Spiros Spirou},
  journal={2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
  year={2016},
  pages={1-7}
}
Multicast data delivery can significantly reduce traffic in operators' networks, but has been limited in deployment due to concerns such as the scalability of state management. This paper shows how multicast can be implemented in contemporary software defined networking (SDN) switches, with less state than existing unicast switching strategies, by utilising a Bloom Filter (BF) based switching technique. Furthermore, the proposed mechanism uses only proactive rule insertion, and thus, is not… 
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