QMNF: QoS Multicast Routing Protocol Using N-Hop Dominating Flooding Approach on Programmable Network

Yung-Mu CHEN
Tein-Yaw CHUNG
Chun-Chu YANG
Pei-Chun CHEN

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.4    pp.1158-1165
Publication Date: 2006/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.4.1158
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Internet Technology VI)
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Keyword: 
N-hop flooding,  programmable network,  QoS multicast routing,  QMNF,  

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Summary: 
QMNF is a QoS-aware multicast routing protocol using N-hop dominating flooding and built upon a layered routing architecture. In this architecture, QMNF invites the N-hop flooding component and the shortest path routing table from OSPF by open signaling interfaces, floods the path-probing packets, and employs a two-pass resource reservation scheme to avoid unnecessary resource reservation. The QMNF is QoS-aware, loop-free, flexible and scalable, and improves network resource utilization. In our simulation, the performance of QMNF is compared with that of traditional flooding protocol with the shortest path resources reservation, a traditional flooding protocol with the widest path resources reservation, PIM and QMBF. The simulation results confirm that QMNF has a high success rate and good resource utilization, and it can distribute traffic in a network evenly.