Posts with Tag: Networks

AINA 2009 Conference Presentation

This past week I travelled to the UK to present at my first International Conference – Advanced Info ...

Updated: NS-2.33 and HWMP rev 183 on Intrepid Ibex 8.10

This post is some quick instructions on how to install ns-2.33 and the hybrid wireless mesh protocol ...

Ten Practical Applications of Wireless Networks

Wireless Networks have become very popular in recent years and research in the area is very active. ...

Fair Scheduling & Load Balancing in WMN

My research is becoming more focused as of late towards the area of fair scheduling and load balanci ...

Thesis Topic

The last few days have been extremely busy. I have finally settled on a thesis topic after a few mon ...

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Multicast Ipv4 and Ipv6 in Java / Kotlin

I recently ran into a peculiarity of multicast in Java / Kotlin. I was using a MulticastSocket: [https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/MulticastSocket.html](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/MulticastSocket.html) and trying to ensure that it winds up bound to either an Inet4Address or Inet6Address. It turns out that even if I did something like: ``` val multicastSocket = MulticastSocket(InetSocketAddress("0.0.0.0", MULTICAST_DEFAULT_PORT)) assert(multicastSocket.localAddress is Inet4Address) ``` The assertion could fail. Similarly if I did: ``` val multicastSock ...