M-MENTOR: a design algorithm for IP networks with mixed traffic

  • Authors:
  • Annop Monsakul;Pisit Charnkeitkong

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Information Technology, Rangsit University, Pathumtani, Thailand;Faculty of Science and Technology, Panyapiwat Institute of Technology, Nonthaburi, Thailand

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMMUNICATIONS
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The design of IP networks to support traffic engineering for both unicast and multicast traffic is a very difficult problem. This paper proposes a heuristic design algorithm called M-MENTOR that concern routing of both types of traffic. However, since multicast traffic model could be employed in many situations and could be managed by various kinds of multicast routing protocols, this paper consider only the design process of the IP networks with following features: (1) network of within the same Autonomous System (AS), (2) routing protocol support multiple weight on each link, (3) the multicast traffic from different sources share the same multicast tree. The efficiency of M-MENTOR is evaluated for various traffic demands and networks of 10, 30 and 50 node and compared with MENTOR-II. The experimental results show that, in almost all cases, M-MENTOR give better performance in term of installation cost.