A QoS multicast routing algorithm based on tabu-hierarchy genetic algorithm in IP/DWDM optical Internet

A Quality of Service (QoS) multicast routing algorithm in IP/DWDM optical Internet is proposed in this paper, taking QoS requirement and cost into account. Due to the NP-hard nature of this problem, a QoS and cost optimized or sub-optimized multicast routing tree is constructed based on tabu-hierarchy genetic algorithm with network load balance supported. Simulation results have shown that the proposed algorithm is both feasible and effective, and is advantageous over its counterpart based on the traditional genetic algorithm.