Benes switching fabrics with O(N)-complexity internal backpressure.

Multistage buffered switching fabrics are the most efficient method for scaling packet switches to very large numbers of ports. The Benes network is the lowest-cost switching fabric known to yield operation free of internal blocking. Backpressure inside a switching fabric can limit the use of expens...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE Communications magazine 43, 1 (2005).
1. Verfasser:	Sapountzis, Georgios
Weitere Verfasser:	Katevenis, Manolis
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Schlagworte:	Benes switching fabric. Cell resequencing. Cell-time-accurate simulator. Complexity internal backpressure. Congested traffic. Credit-based flow control architecture. Crossbar scheduling algorithm. Inverse multiplexing. Multipath cell distribution algorithm. Multipath routing. Multistage buffered switching fabric. Off-chip buffer memory. Output queuing. Packet switch. Randomized routing.