On the study of group multicast in WDM networks

Author

Cao, Yuan ; Yu, Oliver

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1625

Abstract

Group multicast is a generalized multicast pattern important to future high-bandwidth collaborative applications. In this paper, we investigate group multicast routing and wavelength assignment (GMC-RWA) problem in WDM networks. We state GMC-RWA problem as in-group optical approach and multicasting problem, and give its mathematic formulation. Two heuristics based on traffic source grooming are proposed with bounded costs and polynomial-time complexities. Simulations on various network topologies show the efficiency of the heuristics.

Keywords

computational complexity; optical fibre networks; polynomials; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; GMC-RWA; WDM network; group multicast routing-wavelength assignment; high-bandwidth collaborative application; in-group optical approach; mathematic formulation; network topology; polynomial-time complexity; traffic source grooming; Collaboration; Costs; Mathematics; Network topology; Polynomials; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; WDM networks; Wavelength assignment; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2005. ICC 2005. 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8938-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2005.1494618

Filename

1494618