H∀Mcast - Hybrid Adaptive Mobile Multicast.
A Component within a Multiservice Internet Architecture

The research in HAMcast includes:

• Open Multi-Service Architecture
• Universal, Layer-Transparent API including Name-based Sockets
• Named Data Support for Group Communication
• Mobility-Transparent Routing
• ISP Service Interaction between Overlay and Underlay
• Experimentally Driven Optimization and Refinement

The project HAMcast is part of G-Lab and led by the INET group at HAW Hamburg, Germany.
HAMcast is funded by the BMBF (FKZ 01BK0925).

Selected News:

Paper@IEEE GLOBECOM 2010: We present our paper "System-assisted Service Evolution for a Future Internet -- The HAMcast Approach to Pervasive Multicast" at IEEE GLOBECOM 2010

Workshop@IEEE GLOBECOM 2010: We organize the 1st IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Group Communication (IEEE PerGroup)

Project start: You will find a press release at openPR and IDW in German or English.