| Abstract: | Routing and wavelength assignment for online real-time multicast connection setup is a difficulttask due to the dynamic change of availabilities of wavelengths on links and the consideration of wave-length conversion delay in WDM networks. This paper presents a distributed routing and wavelength as-signment scheme for the setup of real-time multicast connections. It integrates routing and wavelength as-signment as a single process, which greatly reduces the connection setup time. The proposed routingmethod is based on the Prim's MST (Minimum Spanning Tree) algorithm and the K-restricted breadth-first search method, which can produce a sub-minimal cost tree under a given delay bound. The wave-length assignment uses the least-conversion and load balancing strategies. Simulation results show that theproposed algorithm is suitable for online multicast connection establishment in WDM networks. |
