Leaking strategy for multicast traffic grooming in WDM mesh networks

Rongping Lin, Wen-De Zhong, Sanjay Kumar Bose, Moshe Zukerman

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Abstract

The ever-increasing popularity and traffic volume of multicast applications motivates the need for development of methodologies for traffic management and network design that especially cater for multicast traffic. Addressing the disparity between the bandwidth offered by a wavelength and the bandwidth required by a single connection is a key challenge in the efficient usage of any wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) network. This problem is also relevant to WDM networks that support multicast traffic and can be mitigated by multicast traffic grooming. This paper considers multicast traffic grooming with a leaking strategy where a light-tree may deliver the traffic of a multicast connection to nodes that are not in the destination set of the connection. This leaking strategy improves the sharing of light-trees and add/drop ports, leading to lower blocking ratios. Two multicast traffic grooming algorithms with leaking strategy, namely, multicast traffic leaky grooming (MTLG), and multicast traffic hybrid grooming (MTHG) are proposed. MTLG grooms traffic to light-trees if the traffic leaked is less than a given threshold value. MTHG first grooms traffic to light-trees without leaking; if some destinations remain, it then grooms traffic to light-trees with leaking. MTHG is an improvement over MTLG as it can attain higher light-tree sharing with less traffic leaked. Simulations show that the two proposed algorithms perform better than other algorithms at low add/drop port ratios with MTHG showing better performance. © 2012 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Article number6352820
Pages (from-to)3709-3719
JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
Volume30
Issue number23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Research Keywords

  • Grooming with leaking
  • light-tree
  • multicast
  • wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)

Publisher's Copyright Statement

  • COPYRIGHT TERMS OF DEPOSITED POSTPRINT FILE: © 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. Lin, R., Zhong, W-D., Bose, S. K., & Zukerman, M. (2012). Leaking strategy for multicast traffic grooming in WDM mesh networks. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 30(23), 3709-3719. [6352820]. https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2012.2227241.

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