Abstract
Multicast transmissions over single-hop WDM LANs have become much more important with several evolving applications. This paper presents a combinational media access protocol which can provide an efficient mechanism for scheduling multicast traffic. The protocol is originated from the unicast-based protocol, which is a pre-allocation-based protocol with tunability at the receiving end. The MSR (Multicast Slot Reservation) reserves slots for the multicast packets and modifies the allocation map derived from the unicast-based protocol. Each node accesses the control channel with the CMS (Combinational Multicast Schedule) algorithm. A multicast packet is verified by the multicast distance in order to determine whether it should be treated as a multicast packet or not. The protocol is simple to implement, and the simulation results suggest that a protocol with the proper multicast distance would result in better performance tradeoffs between unicast traffic and multicast traffic.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 294-299 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| State | Published - 1998 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM 1998 - The Bridge to the Global Integration - Sydney, NSW, Aust Duration: 08 11 1998 → 12 11 1998 |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM 1998 - The Bridge to the Global Integration |
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| City | Sydney, NSW, Aust |
| Period | 08/11/98 → 12/11/98 |