Multicast Routing with Multiple QoS Constraints Based on Genetic Algorithms

Abstract

Recently, more and more applications provide multiparty communication services, e.g., video conferencing, distance learning, etc. Therefore, the routing problem of multicast with multiple QoS constraints becomes more important. For example, in order to ensure smooth play back of audio and video data, a video conference requires guarantee on both end-to-end delay and loss probability. In this paper, we propose a novel multiple-constraint multicast routing algorithm based on genetic algorithms, called MCMGA. Our numerical experiments show that MCMGA yields very good performance.