Information Sciences: an International Journal
On conflict-free all-to-all broadcast in one-hop optical networks of arbitrary topologies
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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This paper investigates the problem of finding optimal multicast virtual topologies, with respect to minimizing the maximum hop distance, in wavelength-division multiplexing multicast trees. Although the problem of finding optimal multicast trees is itself known to be NP-complete under many optimization metrics, high-quality approximation algorithms are known for this problem. We investigate the case that a multicast tree has been selected and seek to embed an optimal virtual topology in this multicast tree. We show that the problem can be solved in polynomial time when tap-and-continue switches are employed, which allow a lightpath to be tapped by some number of intermediate nodes. However, the problem becomes NP-complete when fully multicast-capable switches are employed. Our results suggest that tap-and-continue switches can be used to obtain high-quality multicast virtual topologies, while heuristics will be required to find good solutions in fully multicast-capable networks.