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Multicast over Location-Based Services

Péter Hegedüs, Mihály Orosz, Gábor Hosszú, Ferenc Kovács

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This chapter details the potential found in combining to different technologies. The two basically different technologies, LBSs in mobile communication and the well-elaborated multicast technology are merged in the multicast via LBS solutions. As this chapter demonstrates, this emerging new area has a lot of possibilities, which have not been completely utilized.

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Key concepts: Multicast, Computer science, Xcast, Source-specific multicast, Protocol Independent Multicast, Pragmatic General Multicast, Computer network, Distributed computing