A Delay-Constrained Multicast Routing Algorithm Based on Heuristic Genetic Algorithm

Multicast is a source node sending the same message to a group of destination nodes In videoconference and other such applications that require real time transmission, it is very important to guarantee end to end performance Delay constrained multicast routing has been proven to be a NP Complete problem A genetic algorithm is proposed to solve this problem The algorithm proposed adopts the genetic operators specific to the problem to be solved and has a better performance