Paper Info
Title
Assessment and Open-Issues of the Load-Balanced Switching Architecture
Abstract
High packet switching performance and the potential scalability to a large number of input/output ports, under the admissible traffic assumption, have made Birkhoff-von Neumann load-balanced switch one of the most attractive and promising switch architecture. The focus of this study is on the construction of large number of input/output ports load-balanced switch with very high transmission rate, which is robust enough to better support ever-growing Internet traffic. In this paper, we analyze the state-of-the-art of load-balanced switching while assessing key open issues. We present solutions to some existing problems, specifically to cells re-sequencing in the central and output stages, and the impact on the overall system scalability. A set of new and more complex load-balanced switch architectures will be described in details. This work presents a study of switching behavior with input arrival of variable size packets. The research shows that under certain circumstances the original load-balanced switch will face a critical problem of cells drop in the middle stage buffers, which can lead to unpredictable behavior of the system due to complex variable size packet reassembly at the output stage buffers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/FGCN.2008.202
FGCN (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
output port,output stage buffer,load-balanced switching architecture,original load-balanced switch,input arrival,large number,output stage,promising switch architecture,load-balanced switching,output ports load-balanced switch,complex load-balanced switch architecture,switches,resource allocation,load balance,computer architecture,radiation detectors,internet,packet switching,optical switches,input output,scalability,internet traffic,throughput
Optical switch,Computer science,Load balancing (computing),Network packet,Burst switching,Computer network,Cut-through switching,Packet switching,Internet traffic,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yury Audzevich130613.93
Yoram Ofek260881.68