With the growing popularity of multicast applications and the recognition of the potential of
achievable efficiency gain of traffic grooming, we face the challenge of optimizing the design …

Multicast applications are expected to be major drivers of Internet traffic growth. As most
multicast connections require much lower bandwidth than the capacity offered by a …

With the development of multimedia services in Internet technology, there comes a big gap
between bandwidth utilization and the blocking probability for multicast requests in the …

The ever-increasing popularity and traffic volume of multicast applications motivates the
need for development of methodologies for traffic management and network design that …

This paper proposes a light-tree based heuristic algorithm, called 0/1 knapsack based
multicast traffic grooming, in order to minimize the network cost by reducing the number of …

Multicast applications such as IPTV, video conferencing, telemedicine and online
multiplayer gaming are expected to be major drivers of Internet traffic growth. The disparity …

Multicast applications such as video conferencing, weather forecasting and on-line multi
player gaming are major areas of Internet traffic growth. The disparity between bandwidth …

In WDM technology, link failures have serious effects on multicast sessions compared to
unicast sessions. As a request is being carried to different destinations, it is more critical to …

Multicast traffic grooming is used to multiplex or groom multiple low bandwidth multicast
connections into a high bandwidth wavelength channel or light-tree to increase the …

Abstra—Traffic grooming is being considered as a key functionality of WDM networks, in
which, multiple low speed traffic requests are groomed into a single high capacity …