Affiliation:
1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, Illinois
Abstract
This paper discusses the design of a switch for high-speed computer networking at gigabit rates. We present the
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switch, a non-blocking design based on a high-spin-rate, port-dedicated, word-parallel, shift-register ring. Several design alternatives address the problem of Head-Of-Line blocking. In contrast to Batcher-Banyan switches, access to the ring is asynchronous which facilitates low delay and arbitrary packet length. The switch can support ATM cells simultaneously with packets sized for applications such as single characters, memory words, disk blocks, memory pages, or video images.
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can be used as a high-throughput computer backplane replacement. The design can be implemented with existing high-speed circuit technology.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Software
Cited by
1 articles.
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