… multicasting in such networks. Therefore, in this article we discuss multicasting in three types
of WDM networks… three types of WDM networks and the major issues of multicasting therein. …

… A multicast assignment is a set of multicast connections that do not involve same source node
and … Then, the multicast capacity of a WDM network is defined as the number of multicast …

… a set of QoS multicast requests in a WDM network system, … a WDM network, such as the
configuration of lightpaths or light-trees. The traffic type discussed in this paper (ie, QoS multicast …

… multicast light-splitting capability. In this paper, we will … multicast communication in WDM
networks with multicast-capable switches and compare it with those networks with only multicast-…

… of the WDM layer. In this paper, we study WDM multicasting in an IP over WDM network under
… a multicast tree constructed by distance vector multicast routing protocol (DVMRP) into a …

… directly on optical layers in the network. Multicast mechanisms over WDM networks can
be realized in two different network constructions: multicast over broadcast-and-select …

… semilightpath in WDM networks by introducing new data structures. In what follows, we
adopt a variant of their data structures for the optimal multicast tree roblem. Given the network …

… In this paper, we will address the problem of multicast in WDM networks, in which the
cost of a multicast session includes wavelength cost, wavelength conversion cost, and initial …

… WDM switches), the last two algorithms attempt to address the joint problem of optimal multicast
routing and sparse splitting in WDM networks. … per forest (or multicast session), average …

… In this paper, we will first describe various multicast models in WDM networks which … WDM
multicast network, we define the multicast capacity of a WDM network under a given multicast …