Title
Analysis of the Two-Step Scheduling Framework with Transfer Speedup under Non-Uniform Traffic
Abstract
We recently proposed the two-step scheduling framework (TSS) for multi-card optical switches: first, input ports on each card are assigned a different wavelength, then for every wavelength a matching is found among all cards. The proposed framework significantly improves the scheduler scalability and seamlessly adheres to the modular switch architectural constraints. In this paper TSS is evaluated from both the complexity and performance standpoints. The complexity analysis demonstrates the advantages of TSS in terms of required signaling and performed operations compared to a classical single-step scheduler. The performance analysis is conducted under non-uniform traffic, i.e., with a packet distribution highly skewed toward specific source-destination pairs. TSS latency using heuristic scheduling algorithms is shown to increase, compared to the one using computationally intensive optimal algorithms, especially at high loads. To counteract this issue, the transfer speedup technique is exploited, which allows to send more than one packet within a switching interval, while issuing a single scheduling decision. Results on different switch configurations demonstrate that the smallest transfer speedup allows TSS using suboptimal algorithms to achieve performance comparable to using optimal ones.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICC.2010.5502647
Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
communication complexity,optical switches,scheduling,telecommunication traffic,TSS latency,complexity analysis,heuristic scheduling algorithms,modular switch architectural constraints,multicard optical switches,nonuniform traffic,suboptimal algorithms,transfer speedup technique,two-step scheduling framework
Optical switch,Scheduling (computing),Latency (engineering),Computer science,Network packet,Parallel computing,Computer network,Communication complexity,Real-time computing,Modular design,Speedup,Scalability
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-3607
978-1-4244-6402-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pier Giorgio Raponi1414.98
nicola andriolli201.35
Piero Castoldi302.03