A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCAPSULATING MULTICAST PACKETS INTO UNICAST PACKETS

摘要

A method (200) and system (100) for encapsulating multicast packets into unicast packets, the system comprises a TCP/TP communication stack having means for receiving a plurality of incoming multicast packets from an incoming wireless module (102), a first translation module (106) having means for translating the plurality of incoming multicast packets to a recognizable format for mapping, an intelligent hashing table (110) comprises means for storing a extracted subscriber IP address, a subscriber MAC address and a TTL period, a second translation module (114) comprises means for translating the unicast packets to a format recognizable for transmission, means for transmitting the unicast packets into an outgoing wireless module (116) and mapping modules comprises of a first mapping module (108) and a second mapping module (112). The mapping modules (108, 112) comprises the method of extracting the subscriber IP address, the subscriber MAC address and the TTL period from a plurality of incoming multicast packets (302), storing the subscriber IP address, the subscriber MAC address and the TTL period in an intelligent hashing table (304); encapsulating the plurality of incoming multicast packets into a plurality of unicast packets (306), forwarding the unicast packets for mapping (308) and multiplying the unicast packets in the presence of multiple subscribers (310).