METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZING THE SHARE OF MULTICAST LOAD

摘要

A method and apparatus for realizing the share of multicast load, wherein the method includes: determining the corresponding relationships between the routers and the multicast group aggregate including at least one multicast group; selecting the router corresponding to the multicast group aggregate as the designated router (DR) according to the corresponding relationships, and the multicast services of the multicast group aggregate are processed by the DR. A load share solution based on the DR is provided by the present invention for the routers of the receiving end and multicast source end, and the load among several routers is balanced for the services of each multicast group, so that the problem of the load overbalance of single DR is avoided.