A deadlock-free and adaptive method for reservation of multiple multicast trees

Many reservation methods for multicast communication have been proposed recently, however, most of them discuss centralized reservation of a single multicast tree. Along with spread of multicast communication, reservation of multiple multicast trees are required, in which some links are shared among them. Although centralized methods for reservation of multiple multicast trees can be easily derived from those for reservation of a single multicast tree, there are neither decentralized nor multiagent-based methods for reservation of multiple multicast trees so far. This paper proposes a deadlock-free multiagent-based method for reservation of multiple multicast. Furthermore, this paper also shows the adaptability of the proposed method by simulation experiments.