The basis of multicast data transmission is to construct a multicast tree. The main problem concerning the construction of a multicast tree is the selection of the root of the shared tree or the core point. Therefore, the algorithm we propose guarantees that the delay from the source to any destination does not exceed a real-time constraint satisfying the delay-variation constraint under cost minimization. The core selection function in this algorithm achieves a balance of optimizing cost and delay of the multicast tree. Simulation results show that the algorithm has low complexity and balances between the computational complexity and performance.
