Al-Dubai, Ahmed, Ould-Khaoua, Mohamed and Mackenzie, Lewis (2006) On balancing traffic load in path-based multicast communication. Future Generation Computer Systems, 22. pp. 805-811. ISSN 0167-739X

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Abstract/Description

This paper presents a new multicast path-based algorithm, referred to here as the Qualified Groups (QG for short), which can achieve a high
degree of parallelism and low communication latency over a wide range of traffic loads in the mesh. The QG algorithm relies on a new approach
that divides the destinations in a way that balances the traffic load on network channels during the propagation of the multicast message. Results
from extensive simulations under a variety of working conditions confirm that the QG algorithm exhibits superior performance characteristics
over those of some well-known existing algorithms, such as dual-path, multiple-path, and column-path algorithm.

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