Grid-based switch fabrics: a new approach in designing fault-tolerant ATM switches

  • Authors:
  • H. S. Laskaridis;A. A. Veglis;G. I. Papadimitriou;A. S. Pombortsis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 888, 54006 GR, Thessaloniki, Greece;Computer Lab, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 GR, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 888, 54006 GR, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 888, 54006 GR, Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

ATM is the switching and multiplexing technology chosen to be used in the implementation of B-ISDN, because of its superiority in fast packet switching. However, the use of ATM switches with large number of input and output ports have been proven to be a bottleneck in wide area ATM networks. In this paper, we propose a new space-division grid-based ATM architecture with fault tolerant characteristics and minimal number of switching elements (SE's).