A survey of modern high-performance switching techniques

Author

Ahmadi, Hamid ; Denzel, Wolfgana E.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Volume

7

Issue

7

fYear

1989

fDate

9/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1091

Lastpage

1103

Abstract

A survey of high-performance switch fabric architectures which incorporate fast packet switching as their underlying switching technique to handle various traffic types is presented. A descriptive overview of the major activities in this rapidly evolving field of telecommunications is given. The switch fabrics are classified into the following categories: banyan and buffered banyan-based fabrics, sort-banyan-based fabrics fabrics with disjoint-path topology and output queuing, crossbar-based fabrics, time division fabrics with common packet memory, and fabrics with shared medium

Keywords

electronic switching systems; packet switching; banyan fabric; buffered banyan-based fabrics; crossbar-based fabrics; disjoint-path topology; fast packet switching; high-performance switch fabric architectures; output queuing; packet memory; sort-banyan-based fabrics; telecommunications; time division fabrics; Bandwidth; Circuits; Communication switching; Communication system traffic control; Fabrics; Packet switching; Resource management; Space technology; Switches; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.44557

Filename

44557