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Saturday 5 May 2012

Efficient Resource Allocation for Wireless Multicast


                 abstract       In this paper, we propose a bandwidth-efficient multicast mechanism for heterogeneous wireless networks. We reduce the bandwidth cost of an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast tree by adaptively selecting the cell and the wireless technology for each mobile host to join the multicast group. Our mechanism enables more mobile hosts to cluster together and leads to the use of fewer cells to save the scarce wireless bandwidth. Moreover, our mechanism requires no modification to the current IP multicast routing protocols. We formulate the selection of the cell and the wireless technology for each mobile host in the heterogeneous wireless networks as an optimization problem. We use Integer Linear Programming to model the problem and show that the problem is NP-hard (non-deterministic polynomial-time hard).
Existing System:
                                 The success of wireless and mobile communications in the 21st century has resulted in a large variety of wireless technologies such as second and third-generation cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The heterogeneous wireless networks combine various wireless networks and provide universal wireless access. Users in the heterogeneous wireless networks are usually covered by more than one cell to avoid connection drop and service disruption.   Multicast is an efficient way for one-to-many and many to-many communications. Each multicast group owns a set of members, and each member can be a sender or a receiver of the group. The sender in a multicast group delivers data in a multicast tree to all receivers of the group. Current Internet Protocol (IP) multicast routing protocols adopt the shortest path trees for data delivery. The path from the root of the shortest path tree to each member must be the shortest path in the network. The success of wireless and mobile communications in the 21st century has resulted in a large variety of wireless technologies such as second and third-generation cellulars, satellite, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The heterogeneous wireless networks combine various wireless networks and provide universal wireless access. The leading wireless companies in some countries have operated networks with multiple wireless technologies, such as T-Mobile in the United States, British Telecom in the United Kingdom, Orange Telecom in France, NTT DoCoMo in Japan, and Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan. The number of such companies would increase because the standards for operators to provide seamless services in networks with multiple wireless technologies have been proposed by the Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA). In addition, users in the heterogeneous wireless networks are usually covered by more than one cell to avoid connection drop and service disruption.    Multicast is an efficient way for one-to-many and many to-many communications. Each multicast group owns a set of members, and each member can be a sender or a receiver of the group. The sender in a multicast group delivers data in a multicast tree to all receivers of the group. Current Internet Protocol (IP) multicast routing protocols adopt the shortest path trees for data delivery. The path from the root of the shortest path tree to each member must be the shortest path in the network. As a consequence, the bandwidth consumption in an IP multicast tree will not be able to be reduced in wired networks.
Proposed System:
                                    In this paper, we first comment that the bandwidth consumption in the shortest path tree can be reduced in the heterogeneous wireless networks because the routing of the shortest path tree here is more flexible. The shortest path tree in the heterogeneous wireless networks consists of two parts. The first one is composed of the cell and the wireless technology chosen by each mobile host.  The second one is comprised of the wired links that connect the root of the tree and the chosen cells. Therefore, we can change the routing of the shortest path tree by selecting different cells and wireless technologies for the mobile hosts to reduce the bandwidth consumption.  we formulate in this paper the selection of the cell and the wireless technology for each mobile host as an optimization problem, which is denoted as the Cell and Technology Selection Problem (CTSP) in the heterogeneous wireless networks for multicast communications. The problem is to select the cell and the wireless technology for each group member to minimize the total bandwidth cost of the shortest path tree. We design a mechanism, which includes an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulation, a distributed algorithm, and a network protocol, to solve the CTSP. We use ILP to formulate the CTSP, and the network operator can use our ILP formulation to find the optimal solution for network planning. We show that CTSP is NP-hard, which, in turn, justifies the necessity of designing efficient algorithms for suboptimal solutions. We devise an algorithm LAGRANGE, which is based on Lagrange a relaxation on our ILP formulation.   
 
Software Requirements:
Ø  JDK 5.0
Ø  Java Swings

Hardware Requirements:

Ø  Processor    Pentium
Ø  RAM           1 GB

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