Multi-objective optimization scheme for multicast flows: a survey, a model and a MOEA solution

This paper presents a new traffic engineering load balancing taxonomy, classifying several publications and including their objective functions, constraints and proposed heuristics. Using this classification, a novel Generalized Multiobjective Multitree model (GMM-model) is proposed. This model considers for the first time multitree-multicast load balancing with splitting in a multiobjective context, whose mathematical solution is a whole Pareto optimal set that can include several results than it has been possible to find in the publications surveyed. To solve the GMM-model, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) inspired by the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA) is proposed. Experimental results considering up to 11 different objectives are presented for the well-known NSF network, with two simultaneous data flows.

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