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Design of Scalable and Multicast Capable Cut-Through Switches for High-Speed LANs (1997)
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@MISC{Yang97designof,
author = {Mingyao Yang and Lionel M. Ni},
title = {Design of Scalable and Multicast Capable Cut-Through Switches for High-Speed LANs},
year = {1997}
}
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Abstract
High-speed switches play an important role in building switched LANs. Among different techniques used in switch design, cut-through switching promises short latency delivery and thus is well suited to distributed /parallel applications. The back pressure flow control of cut-through switching also prevents packet loss due to buffer overflow. This paper presents an incremental switch design based on modular building blocks using cut-through switching technique. The switch can be either nonblocking with full configuration and deterministic routing, or blocking but having more flexibility in configuration and fault tolerance. A kind of switch configuration that fits the client/server computing paradigm is presented. Simulation results are given for various switch configurations and traffic loads. The switch also has built-in hardware multicast capability. Issues of physical layout and integration into practical LANs are also discussed. 1 Introduction Switch-based networks are becoming po...
Keyphrases
multicast capable cut-through switch high-speed lan important role switch configuration client server introduction switch-based network high-speed switch different technique cut-through switching fault tolerance switched lan traffic load full configuration physical layout deterministic routing incremental switch design various switch configuration built-in hardware multicast capability cut-through switching technique switch design simulation result practical lan packet loss modular building block parallel application back pressure flow control
