Title :
HiMA: a hierarchical and modular ATM switch with partially shared output buffer
Author :
Tsai, Z. ; Yu, K. ; Lai, F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
The authors propose a hierarchical and modular ATM switch for BISDN. To improve the queueing performance, they adopt the output queueing technique and allow several outputs to partially share the same output buffer space. The performance of the proposed switch is evaluated under uniform and nonuniform traffic patterns. Comparisons with the knockout switch, recursive switch, SCOQ, and Christmas-tree switch show that, in terms of complexity, crosspoint count, scalability and synchronisation, the proposed switch is superior.<>
Keywords :
B-ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; queueing theory; BISDN; Christmas-tree switch; HiMA; SCOQ; complexity; crosspoint count; hierarchical ATM switch; knockout switch; modular ATM switch; nonuniform traffic; output queueing; queueing performance; recursive switch; scalability; shared output buffer; synchronisation; uniform traffic;
Journal_Title :
Communications, Speech and Vision, IEE Proceedings I
