Multi-destination communication over single-hop lightwave WDM networks

The authors address the open issue of providing efficient mechanisms for multi-destination communication over one class of lightwave WDM architectures, namely, single-hop networks. They suggest, analyze, and optimize several alternative approaches for broadcast/multicast. One of their major contributions is the development of a suite of adaptive multicast protocols which have very good performance, are very simple to implement, and are insensitive to propagation delays