UNICAST BRANCHING BASED MULTICAST

The present disclosure generally discloses multicast communication support capabilities configured to support multicast communications of a multicast group using a multicast tree. The multicast communication support capabilities may include a unicast branching based multicast capability. The unicast branching based multicast capability may be configured to support determination and establishment of, as well as communication via, a multicast tree that is composed of unicast branches. The unicast branching based multicast capability may be configured to preserve the multicast information of multicast transmissions transported via the multicast tree even though the multicast transmissions are transported via unicast branches of the multicast tree. The unicast branching based multicast capability may be configured to preserve the multicast information of multicast transmissions transported via unicast branches of the multicast tree based on encoding of the multicast information within the packets of the multicast transmission being transported via the unicast branches of the multicast tree.