A Primer of Multicast Routing

Whereas unicast routing determines a path from one source node to one destination node, multicast routing determines a path from one source to many destinations, or from many sources to many destinations. We survey multicast routing methods for when the set of destinations is static, and for when it is dynamic. While most of the methods we review are tree based, some non—tree methods are also discussed. We survey results on the shape of multicast trees, delay constrained multicast routing, ...