Title :
Resource allocation in a multicast tree
Author :
Kodialam, Murali ; Low, Steven H.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We consider how to allocate bandwidth in a multicast tree so as to optimize some global measure of performance. In our model each receiver has a budget to be used for bandwidth reservation on links along its path from the source, and each link has a cost function depending on the amount of total bandwidth reserved at the link by all receivers using that link. We formulate and solve a problem of allocating bandwidth in the multicast tree such that the sum of link costs is minimized
Keywords :
bandwidth allocation; multicast communication; telecommunication links; trees (mathematics); QoS; bandwidth allocation; bandwidth reservation; cost function; directed multicast tree; global performance measure; link costs minimization; receivers; resource allocation; Bandwidth; Cost function; Distributed algorithms; Iterative algorithms; Quality of service; Resource management; Tail;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '99. Eighteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5417-6
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1999.749291
