Title
Introducing PSO for Optimal Packet Scheduling of Collective Communication
Abstract
Interconnection network is an inevitable component that is responsible to the system's communication capability. It affects the system-level performance as well as the physical and logical structure of the parallel system. Many studies are reported to enhance the interconnection network technology, however, we have to further discuss remaining issues for building large-scale systems. One of the most important issues is congestion management. In an interconnection network, packets are transferred simultaneously, and the packets interfere to each other on the network. Congestion arises as a result of the interference among packets. Its fast spreading speed degrades communication performance drastically and it continues for long time. Thus, we should appropriately control the network to suppress the congested situation for maintaining the maximum performance. Many studies address the problem and present effective methods, however, the maximal performance in an ideal situation is not sufficiently clarified. Solving the ideal performance is, in general, an NP-hard problem. This paper introduces particle swarm optimization (PSO) method to overcome the problem. In this paper, we first formalize the optimization problem suitable for the PSO method and present three PSO methods for avoiding local minima. We furthermore introduce some non-PSO methods for comparison. Our preliminary evaluation results reveal high potentials of the PSO method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CANDAR.2016.0080
2016 Fourth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
interconnection networks,congestion control,packet scheduling,particle swarm optimization,flow control
Particle swarm optimization,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Network packet,Maxima and minima,Schedule,Interference (wave propagation),Interconnection,Optimization problem,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2379-1888
978-1-5090-2656-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Yokota14121.70
Kanemitsu Ootsu24423.90
Takeshi Ohkawa310.71