Concurrent fault detection for a multiple-plane packet switch

  • Authors:
  • Roberto Rojas-Cessa;Eiji Oki;H. Jonathan Chao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ;NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Tokyo 180-8585, Japan;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY

  • Venue:
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In high-speed and high-capacity packet switches, system reliability is critical to avoid loss of huge amounts of information and retransmission of traffic. We propose a series of concurrent fault-detection mechanisms for a multiple-plane crossbar-based packet switch. Our switch model, called the m+z model, has m active planes and z spare planes. This switch has distributed arbiters on each plane. The spare planes, used for substitution of faulty active ones, are also used in the fault-detection mechanism, thus providing fault detection and fault location for all switching planes. Our detection schemes are able to quickly detect a single fault without increasing transmission overhead. The proposed schemes can be used for switches with different numbers of active planes and a small number of spare planes.