Abstract:

Due to the difficulties faced in the deployment of IP muhicast, the application layer multicast is being increasingly recognized as a general multicas  t service policy. By analyzing the characteristics of the application layer overlay network, this paper proposes a more reasonable model for the applica  tion layer multicast routing problem. This novel model tries to optimize the delay and load balancing simultaneously. The complexity of the model is ana   lyzed, and a method which is based on genetic algorithms is proposed to solve the problem. Simulation results show that the algorithm is both valid and   effective.

Key words: application layer multicast, multicast routing, multi-objective optimization, genetic algorithm