Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)

Presented by Deborah Estrin/USC

Biography:  Deborah Estrin is currently an Associate Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
where she teaches and does research in the area of Computer Networks.
Her current research interests are in scalable multicast routing
protocols, multicast-oriented reservation setup protocols, inter-domain
routing for global internets, adaptive routing to support multimedia
applications, and design tools and techniques for developing scalable
network protocols.

Estrin is a co-Principal Investigator on the NSF Routing Arbiter project
at USC's Information Sciences Institute.  She also co-chairs the Source
Demand Routing Working Group of the IETF and is a primary participant in
the Inter-Domain Multicast Routing and Resource Reservation Setup
Protocol Working Groups.