TY - GEN
T1 - Nonblocking k-fold multicast networks
AU - Yang, Yuanyuan
AU - Wang, Jianchao
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2002 IEEE.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Multicast communication involves transmitting information from a single source to multiple destinations, and is a requirement in high-performance networks. Current trends in networking applications indicate an increasing demand in future networks for multicast capability. Many multicast applications require not only multicast capability but also predictable communication performance, such as guaranteed multicast latency and bandwidth. In this paper, we present a design for a nonblocking k-fold multicast network, in which any destination node can be involved in up to k simultaneous multicast connections in a nonblocking manner. We also develop an efficient routing algorithm for the network. As can be seen, a k-fold multicast network has significantly lower network cost than that of k copies of 1-fold multicast networks and is a cost-effective choice for supporting arbitrary multicast communication.
AB - Multicast communication involves transmitting information from a single source to multiple destinations, and is a requirement in high-performance networks. Current trends in networking applications indicate an increasing demand in future networks for multicast capability. Many multicast applications require not only multicast capability but also predictable communication performance, such as guaranteed multicast latency and bandwidth. In this paper, we present a design for a nonblocking k-fold multicast network, in which any destination node can be involved in up to k simultaneous multicast connections in a nonblocking manner. We also develop an efficient routing algorithm for the network. As can be seen, a k-fold multicast network has significantly lower network cost than that of k copies of 1-fold multicast networks and is a cost-effective choice for supporting arbitrary multicast communication.
KW - Multicast communication
KW - nonblocking
KW - quality-of-service (QoS)
KW - routing
KW - switch-based networks
KW - switching networks
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84966460729
U2 - 10.1109/IPDPS.2002.1016543
DO - 10.1109/IPDPS.2002.1016543
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2002
SP - 149
BT - Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2002
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2002
Y2 - 15 April 2002 through 19 April 2002
ER -