SEGMENT ROUTING IPV6 EXTENSION TO SUPPORT MULTICAST IN RAN AND PC

Abstract: point-to-multipoint (p2mp) delivery of data in a srv6 network for multicast/p2mp data delivery. function and argument bits are encoded segment routing (srv6) as a last significant bit in an ipv6 address. an srv6 node can be encoded with a segment id to tunnel multicast through a node that does not support bit index explicit replication (bier) srv6 forwarding.