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Comments: the file is on castor. wonder if/when I'll get a report number for future 
reference.
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%R 99-05
%U /ftp/pub/WWW/faculty/qiao/mcast.ps
%A Qiao, C.
%A Jeong, M.
%A Guha, A.
%A Zhang, X.
%A Wei, J.
%T WDM Multicasting in IP over WDM Networks
%D May 1, 1999
%I Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY Buffalo
%K multicasting, Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), Internet Protocol (IP), DVMRP, optical burst switching,
%X Supporting WDM multicasting in an IP over WDM network  
poses interesting problems because some WDM switches may be incapable of 
switching an incoming signal to more than one output interface. 
An approach to WDM multicasting based on wavelength-routing, 
which constructs a multicafor each multicast session 
so that multicast-incapable WDM switches do not need to multicast, was 
proposed and evaluated in one of our previous study. 
Such an approach requires global 
knowledge of the WDM layer. In this paper, we study WDM multicasting 
in an IP over WDM network 
under the framework of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) 
using optical burst/label switching (OBS/OLS). 
We propose a protocol 
which modifies a multicast tree constructed by 
distance vector multicast routing protocol (DVMRP) into a multicast forest 
based on the local information only.