Abstract:
To provide multicast for multimedia real time services, such as digital audio and video in networks, is one of the important issues in current research field. Using modern hierarchical coding techniques, source information can be partitioned into sub streams; each destination node,under its user’s different requirement or access network’s constraints, would receive partial coding signal. Using this method, users’ different requirement or network’s heterogeneous condition can be easily satisfied. In this paper, two bandwidth delay constrained low cost multicast routing algorithms are proposed, in which heterogeneous network’s environment and real time media stream’s delay constraint condition are considered fully, and thus are more useful for real time communication than the old ones in heterogeneous networks.