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How to Simulate and Evaluate
Multicast Routing Algorithms
Maciej Piechowiak and Piotr Zwierzykowski
ABSTRACT
This chapter describes routing algorithms for multicast connections in packet networks and ana-
lyzes their efciency with computer simulations.
The rst part presents an analysis of the methods for network topology modelling that are to
represent real telecommunications and computer networks with the application of graphs. The most
important parameters for the description of the network that allow the selected models to be com-
pared qualitatively are presented and discussed. The adopted methods for modelling network topol-
ogy make it ...