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Multi-Destination Communication Over Single-Hop Lightwave WDM Networks
The importance of computer applications and telecommunication services
relying on efficient multi-destination communication is growing
rapidly. It is now likely that a significant portion of the overall
traffic in future communication environments will be of the
multi-destination type. At the same time, lightwave technology is
emerging as a promising candidate for implementing the next generation
of multiuser high-speed networks. In this paper we address the open
issue of providing efficient mechanisms for multi-destination
communication over one class of lightwave WDM architectures, namely,
single-hop networks. We suggest, analyze, and optimize several
alternative approaches for broadcast/multicast. One of our major
contributions is the development of a suite of adaptive multicast
protocols which have superior performance, are very simple to
implement, and are insensitive to propagation delays