Performance measures computation for a single link loss network with unicast and multicast traffics

The resource sharing is a fundamental issue for multirate loss networks, specially for multicast traffic with a huge number of recipients. In this paper, we give a generalized mathematical model to compute exact values of performance measures for unicast and multicast multirate traffics sharing a single link. We propose a recursive algorithm to obtain the normalization constant and the main performance measures, including blocking probabilities and link utilization factor. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.