Router Architectures Exploiting Input-Queued Cell-Based Switching Fabrics

  • Authors:
  • Marco Ajmone Marsan;Andrea Bianco;Paolo Giaccone;Emilio Leonardi;Fabio Neri

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • QoS-IP '01 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Input queued and combined input/output queued switching-architectures must be controlled by a scheduling algorithm, which solves contention in the transfer of data units to switch outputs. We consider the case of packet switches (or routers), i.e., devices operating on variable-size data units at their interfaces, assuming that they internally operate on fixed-size data units, and we propose novel extensions of known schedulinga lgorithms for input queued and combined input/output queued architectures. We show by simulation that such architectures can provide performance advantages over traditional output queued architectures.