Multicast routing for real-time communication of high-speed networks
H.F. Salama, Yannis Viniotis, Douglas S. Reeves · 1996
Real-time network applications, e.g., multimedia applications and critical control applications, are evolving at a fast pace. These applications are resource-intensive, have stringent delay requirements, and in many cases involve more than two participants. Efficient multicast communication mechanisms are, therefore, necessary to support real-time applications. In this dissertation, we study five routing problems for real-time communication on high-speed connection-oriented wide-area networks. The objective of all problems we study is to optimize the utilization of the network resources without violating the delay requirements of real-time applications. We focus primarily on multicast routing problems, but we consider also the special cases of broadcast routing and unicast routing.