Virtual path layouts optimizing total hop count on ATM tree networks

This paper presents some algorithmic results concerning virtual path layouts for the one-to-many communication problem in ATM tree networks. The ATM network model is based on covering the network with a layout of virtual paths, under some constraints on the allowed load, namely, the number of paths that can share an edge. The quality measure used is the hop count, namely, the number of edges traversed between two vertices that need to communicate. Whereas most former results concerned the maximum hop count of the virtual path layout, our interest here is in measuring its total hop count, or alternatively its average hop count. The paper presents a dynamic programming algorithm for planning ATM network layouts with minimal total hop count for one-to-many requirements under load constraints over the class of tree networks.