A novel algorithm for multimedia multicast routing in a large scale network
Abstract A new efficient multiple-searching genetic algorithm is presented for constructing minimum-cost multicast trees. In order to have computers successfully become consumer electronics for multimedia multicast communication applications, we propose a novel multimedia multicast routing approach for the large scale network in this paper. According to our simulation results, our algorithm is robust and can obtain optimal solution of a given problem with probability for both the sparse and dense networks. It outperforms some existing promising genetic algorithms.