Multicast routing with end-to-end delay and delay variation constraints

  • Authors:
  • George N. Rouskas;Ilia Baldine

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

  • Venue:
  • INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We study the problem of constructing multicast trees to meet the quality of service requirements of real-time, interactive applications opeipating in high-speed packet-switched environments. In particular, we assume that multicast communication depends on (a) bounded delay along the paths from the source to each destination, and (b) bounded variation among th8e delays along these paths. We first establish that the problem of determinzng such a constrained tree is NP-complete. We then derive heuristics that demonstrate good average case behavior in terms of the maximum inter-destination delay varaation of the final tree. We also show how to dynamically reorganize the initial tree an response to changes in the de.stinatzon set, in a way that is minimally disruptive to the multicast session.