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Re: [Roll] multicast & MLD on LLN

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 15 October 2014 20:09 UTC

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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Subject: Re: [Roll] multicast & MLD on LLN
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Hi Don,

this sounds exactly like a use case our multicasting approach can solve.

Two questions:

1) Are you using storing or non-storing mode for RPL?

2) For the kinds of groups below, was is the likely distribution of group sizes?

Grüße, Carsten

On 15 Oct 2014, at 18:58, Don Sturek <d.sturek@att.net> wrote:

> 4)  From an application point of view, we want to use special application-defined multicast groups for things like:
>        A.    Control a geographic collection of street lights (like all the ones in an area where there is to be a festival this evening)
>        B.    Control a geographically  diverse collection of devices that are not the entire population (for example, I want a message sent to all of my pre-pay customers which are mainly focused in some neighborhoods, less in others)

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