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:
H∀Mcast 0.5 released: A new open-source release of our H∀Mcast prototype implentation is available online
Paper@IEEE LCN 2012: We present our paper "Large-Scale Measurement and Analysis of One-Way Delay in Hybrid Multicast Networks"
Demo@EuroView 2012: We present a showcase on the H∀Mcast prototype at the 12th Würzburg Workshop on IP: ITG Workshop Visions of Future Generation Networks
Project start: You will find a press release at openPR and IDW in German or English.