Transmission optimization for application-level multicast

摘要

Transmission optimization for application-level multicast is described. For each member of a video conference, a multicast tree is generated that represents a data communication configuration of a data source and the other members of a video conference which are data recipients that receive video and audio data from the data source. An end-to-end transmission delay from each data source to each of the respective data recipients is determined, and the available bandwidth between each data source and the respective data recipients is determined. One or more of the multicast trees, each corresponding to a data source, are refined according to the end-to-end transmission delay and available bandwidth for a particular data source to optimize the data communication configuration of the data source in the video conference.