Pipelined balanced gamma network for broadband communications switch fabrics

Author

Venkatesan, R. ; El-Sayed, Yaser ; Sivakumar, H.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. John´´s, Nfld., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

25-28 May 1997

Firstpage

680

Abstract

A new interconnection network structure, based on the concept of pipelining, is proposed. This structure comprises of one control plane and a set of data planes. The control plane is responsible for determining the routing decisions for arriving packets and assigning packets which would be successfully routed to the various data planes. Simulation results show that the throughput of the proposed network is close to unity, and the average delay is very small even in networks with 1024 input lines and just one buffer at each input line. Thus, this network is more attractive for use in broadband communications switch fabrics than those based on the banyan structure

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; broadband networks; channel capacity; delays; multistage interconnection networks; network topology; telecommunication network routing; arriving packets; average delay; broadband communications switch fabrics; control plane; data planes; interconnection network structure; pipelined balanced gamma network; routing decisions; throughput; Asynchronous transfer mode; Broadband communication; Buffer storage; Circuits; Communication switching; Fabrics; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Packet switching; Routing; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. IEEE 1997 Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Johns, Nfld.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3716-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1997.608328

Filename

608328