Author :
Bystrov, A. ; Yakovlev, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Newcastle upon Tyne Univ., UK
fDate :
5/27/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The granting of requests in the order of their arrival is not satisfied in existing l/n arbiters, such as token rings, tree arbiters and networks of two-way arbiters. The proposed solution stores pending grants in a FIFO, thus maximally preserving the request order, improves fairness and offers lower metastability rate.
Keywords :
network interfaces; FIFO storage; asynchronous systems; metastability rate reduction; ordered arbiters; pending grants storage; request order preservation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990617
