Framework for multicast in hierarchical networks

Author

Cohen, Reuven ; Felstaine, Eyal ; Emek, Roy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

26-30 Mar 2000

Firstpage

1673

Abstract

We propose a framework for the creation and maintenance of multicast trees in hierarchical ATM networks. This framework aims at coping with an inherent difficulty of topology aggregation in such networks. The main idea of the proposed framework is to distribute the tree topology information among a set of hierarchical multicast group servers (MGS) nominated for each multicast tree, while keeping regions that do not have a member in the multicast group unaware of the tree. The framework can be employed with every multicast routing algorithm designed for non-hierarchical networks

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; multicast communication; network topology; telecommunication network routing; trees (mathematics); ATM networks; hierarchical networks; multicast group servers; multicast routing; multicast trees; topology aggregation; tree topology information; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication switching; Computer science; Intelligent networks; Network topology; Packet switching; Peer to peer computing; Routing; Switches; Tree graphs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM 2000. Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Tel Aviv

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5880-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.2000.832566

Filename

832566