One Wide-Sense Circuit Tree per Traffic Class Based Inter-domain Multicast

Traditional multicast protocol forms multicast trees rooted at different sources to forward packets. If the multicast sources and receivers are in different domains, these trees will produce a great number of multicast states in the backbone, resulting in poor scalability. Therefore, we propose a one Wide-Sense Circuit Tree per Traffic Class based inter-domain multicast (WSCT-TC), in which a Wide-Sense Circuit Tree (WSCT) is established for a class of multicast traffic. The WSCT is established in the backbone, along which multicast packets are forwarded by label switching. The spec of WSCT can be reconfigured according to the QoS (Quality of Service) requirement of multicast applications, to provide preferable QoS. Simulating experiment shows that WSCT-TC behaves better scalability.