IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A flexible shared-buffer switch for ATM at Gb/s rates
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
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IEEE Communications Magazine
ATM shared-memory switching architectures
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Shared-buffer switches have many advantages such as relatively low cell loss rate and good buffer utilization, and they are increasingly favoured in recent VLSI switch designs for ATM. However, their performance degrades dramatically under nonuniform traffic due to the monopolization of the buffer by some favoured cells. To overcome this, restricted types of sharing and hot-spot pushout (HSPO) have been proposed, and the latter has been shown by simulation to perform better in all situations. In this paper we develop an analytical model for performance evaluation of a shared-buffer asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch with HSPO under bursty traffic. This analytical model is an improved version of the first model ever developed for this purpose. We balance the relative queues to approximate the effects of pushout, while keeping only four state-variables, and our model gives a good agreement with simulation, for calculating throughput and cell loss.