A Multicast Routing Algorithm of Multi Constraint Conditions

The article presents a multicast routing algorithm that meets three constraint conditions in the multicast application. The algorithm comprises two steps. First the algorithm is based on MPH and adjusts the nodes' rank in the current multicast tree, and gradually gets the low cost and hop constrained multicast tree by selecting the destination node with minimum cost to current multicast tree in turn. Then some relay nodes, which is not fit for the requirement of the resource consumption, is deleted. The rest of the relay nodes makes up of the final multicast tree, which consumes the least time slot.