QoS Multicast Routing with Heterogeneous Receivers

King Shan Lui, Jun Wang, Li Xiao, Klara Nahrstedt

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Abstract

When supporting source-specific heterogeneous-receiver multimedia applications, a multicast tree is built among a source and the receivers such that the path from the source to each receiver satisfies the delay and bandwidth constraints. To optimize the network usage, it is desirable to find a multicast tree that minimizes the total bandwidth used while satisfying the different delay and bandwidth requirements of the receivers. For scalability reason, the desired protocol should require little or minimum storage in the sender and other on-tree routers. Moreover, to allow dynamic member join or leave, a receiver-initiated approach is more appropriate. In this paper, we describe our receiver-initiated QoS multicast protocol that aims at reducing the bandwidth used in building a multicast tree for heterogeneous receivers by actively identifying better sub-optimal paths. Our protocol does not require additional information to be stored in the on-tree routers, and it is able to construct a better sub-optimal tree than existing protocols.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages3597-3601
Number of pages5
StatePublished - 2003
EventIEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM'03 - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: Dec 1 2003Dec 5 2003

Other

OtherIEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM'03
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period12/1/0312/5/03

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change

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