A distributed multicast routing protocol for real-time multicast applications

Xiaohua Jia, Yanchun Zhang, Niki Pissinou, Kia Makki

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Abstract

Multicast routing is establishing a tree which is rooted from the source node and contains all the multicast destinations. A delay bounded routing tree is a tree in which the accumulated delay from the source node to any destination along the tree does not exceed a pre-specified bound. This paper presents a distributed routing protocol which constructs delay bounded routing trees for real-time multicast connections. A constructed routing tree has a near optimal network cost under the delay bound constraint. The proposed algorithm is fully distributed, efficient in terms of the number of messages required, and flexible in multicast membership changes. A large number of simulations have been done to show the network cost of the routing trees generated by our method is better than the other major existing algorithms. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)101-109
JournalComputer Networks
Volume31
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Jan 1999

Research Keywords

  • Delay bounded routing
  • Distributed routing
  • Multicast routing
  • Real-time communication

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