Multicast nonblocking switching networks

Abstract

This paper considers three-stage switching networks for which nonblocking conditions with point-to-point traffic are given by the well known Clos (1953) theorem, under the assumption of absence of any optimized routing of the connections inside the network. We give the conditions for such a network to be strict-sense nonblocking under multicast traffic, by showing also that previously published papers, although claiming the same result, only provided sufficient conditions.