Abstract
It is widely believed that IPTV will be one of the major applications
in future IP networks and that IP over optical networks will be a major component
of the next generation Internet. However, it is not efficient to map a single
multicast IPTV flow into one light tree because the required bandwidth of
an IPTV flow is usually much less than the capacity of a light-tree. Furthermore,
pay-per-view or secure flows should be sent only to authorized users. In this
paper, we study the problem of multi-class multicast flow aggregation with
the constraint that secure programs are sent to authorized nodes. We first
describe the problem and prove it to be NP-complete. We then formulate an
integer linear program (ILP) and give results for small scale problems. Heuristic
algorithms are presented, and results show that our heuristics achieve good
results in both small and large scale problems. Also simulations show that
the ratio of secure programs over total programs has great impact on the final
aggregation results.
© 2009 IEEE
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