“…Multicast workloads define traffic between more than two nodes, e.g. consider the telecast connection (3,5,9,7,11) (Table 1) where node 3 is the source node and the rest are sink nodes for this group communication; thus, there are communications for the node pairs 3-5, 3-9, 3-7, 3-1 1 for this group. Due to multicast routing, however, a copy of a packet is originally created for this group at node 3 and is routed along the multicast tree.…”