Metaheuristics are widely used to solve important practical combinatorial optimization problems. Many new multicast applications emerging from the Internet-such as TV over the Internet, radio over the Internet, and multipoint video streaming-require reduced bandwidth consumption, end-to-end delay, and packet loss ratio. It is necessary to design and to provide for these kinds of applications as well as for those resources necessary for functionality.
Multi-Objective Optimization in Computer Networks Using Metaheuristics provides a solution to the multi-objective problem in routing...

The emergence of quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms continues to propel the development of real-time multimedia services such as VoIP and videoconferencing. However, many challenges remain in achieving optimized standardization convergence.

Network Design for IP Convergence is a comprehensive, global guide to recent advances in IP network implementation. Providing an introduction to basic LAN/WAN/MAN network design, the author covers the latest equipment and architecture, addressing, QoS policies, and integration of services, among other topics. The book...

Many new multicast applications emerging from the Internet, such as TV over the Internet, Radio over the Internet, Video Streaming multi-point, etc., need the following resource requirements: bandwidth consumption, end-to-end delay, packet loss ratio, etc. It is therefore necessary to formulate a proposal to specify and provide for these kinds of applications the resources necessary for them to function well. In this thesis, we propose a multi-objective traffic engineering scheme using different distribution trees to multicast several flows. In this case, we are using the multipath approach...