A Switch Architecture Guaranteeing QoS Provision and HOL Blocking Elimination

Both QoS support and congestion management techniques become essential to achieve good network performance in current high-speed interconnection networks. The most effective techniques traditionally considered for both issues, however, require too many resources for being implemented. In this paper...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems 2009-01, Vol.20 (1), p.13-24
Main Authors: Martinez, A., Garcia, P.J., Alfaro, F.J., Sanchez, J.L., Flich, J., Quiles, F.J., Duato, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Communication switching
Computer architecture
Computer networks
Congestion
Costs
Degradation
Energy consumption
High speed
Interconnection architectures
Management
Multiprocessor interconnection networks
Networks
Parallel Architectures
Proposals
Quality of service
Queues
Switches
Switching theory
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Both QoS support and congestion management techniques become essential to achieve good network performance in current high-speed interconnection networks. The most effective techniques traditionally considered for both issues, however, require too many resources for being implemented. In this paper we propose a new cost-effective switch architecture able to face the challenges of congestion management and, at the same time, to provide QoS. The efficiency of our proposal is based on using the resources (queues) used by RECN (an efficient Head-Of-Line blocking elimination technique) also for QoS support, without increasing queue requirements. Provided results show that the new switch architecture is able to guarantee QoS levels without any degradation due to congestion situations.
ISSN:1045-9219
1558-2183
DOI:10.1109/TPDS.2008.62