DEVELOPMENT OF MULTICAST ALGORITHM FOR THE DETERMINATION OF MINIMUM COST OF BANDWIDTH OVER CODED PACKET WIRELESS NETWORK

📄 Project Abstract

Minimum cost of multicast is the process of finding the node transmission cost such that the total cost of bandwidth used for sending messages from source to any destination nodes is minimized. The Network Coding Algorithm(NCA) was developed using linear programming framework by considering packets delay as the only key performance metrics. This research work is based on Shannon Hartley channel capacity theorem aimed at interpreting the cost of bandwidth within the channel and this was achieved by considering more performance metrics that affect the channel. Loss and delay of packetare collectively considered and later delay, loss and rejection packet are also considered on the Network Coding Algorithm. The problem was formulated as optimization problem using mixed integer linear programming problem. Simulation results showed that the average cost of bandwidth decrease as more performance metrics are collectively considered. When two performance metrics of delay and loss are considered...