VIRTUAL CIRCUIT CONNECTION METHOD FOR RSVP MULTICASTING SUPPORTING HETEROGENEOUS RECEIVERS ON THE ATM NETWORK

The authors suggest a novel virtual circuit connection method based on the reverse traversing technique to minimise the waste of network ban dwidth resources, when the internet protocol multicast is interoperate d using the resource reservation protocol over an asynchronous transfe r mode network. Simulation results show that, as the number of receive rs increases, the bandwidth requirements on all links of the network o f the proposed scheme become more advantageous than those of other con ventional methods.