Multicast Routing In Optical Access Networks

Miklós Molnár (1) , Fen Zhou (2, 1) , Bernard Cousin (2, 3)

1 INSA Rennes - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes
2 ATNET - Advanced Technolgy in Networking
3 UR - Université de Rennes

Widely available broadband services in the Internet require high capacity access networks. Only optical networking is able to efficiently provide the huge bandwidth required by multimedia applications. Distributed applications such as Video-Conferencing, HDTV, VOD and Distance Learning are increasingly common and produce a large amount of data traffic, typically between several terminals. Multicast is a bandwidth-efficient technique for one-to-many or many-to-many communications, and will be indispensable for serving multimedia applications in future optical access networks. These applications require robust and reliable connections as well as the satisfaction of QoS criteria. In this chapter, several access network architectures and related multicast routing methods are analyzed. Overall network performance and dependability are the focus of our analysis.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Miklós Molnár, Fen Zhou, Bernard Cousin. Multicast Routing In Optical Access Networks. Ioannis P. Chochliouros; George A. Heliotis. Optical Access Networks and Advanced Photonics: Technologies and Deployment Strategies, Ioannis P. Chochliouros; George A. Heliotis, pp.162-183, 2009, ⟨10.4018/978-1-60566-707-2.ch008⟩. ⟨hal-00541014⟩