Genetic Algorithms for Network Optimization

Whereas multicast transmission in one-to-many communications allows the operator to save drastically network resources, it also makes the routing of the traffic flows more complex than in unicast transmissions. The use of the genetic algorithms (GA) is presented, which can considerably reduce the number of solutions to be evaluated and helps to find the appropriate combination of the trees to comply with the bandwidth needs of the group of point-to-point links and then of the group of multicast sessions.