Multiple choice

Which of the following defines the advantage of buffered multicast mechanism over unbuffered multicast mechanism?

  1. The message is immediately received by ready state receiving process.

  2. It saves memory locations which are required for preserving and receiving messages.

  3. It is more reliable.

  4. The message is never lost.

  5. None of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The sending message will be available to each allocated buffer till a new message is received. Hence, it is always available to the receiving station till new message is sent to receiver. So, message is never lost within the time frame.

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