ChinaCom2008-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

Integrated Uni- and Multicast Traffic Scheduling in Buffered Crossbar Switches

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4684971,
        author={Hongchao Hu and Lin Pang and PENG YI and Yunfei Guo},
        title={Integrated Uni- and Multicast Traffic Scheduling in Buffered Crossbar Switches},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-FCN},
        year={2008},
        month={11},
        keywords={Buffered crossbar MCICQ dynamic round},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4684971}
    }
    
  • Hongchao Hu
    Lin Pang
    PENG YI
    Yunfei Guo
    Year: 2008
    Integrated Uni- and Multicast Traffic Scheduling in Buffered Crossbar Switches
    CHINACOM2008-FCN
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4684971
Hongchao Hu1,*, Lin Pang1,*, PENG YI1,*, Yunfei Guo1,*
  • 1: National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technology R&D Center (NDSC) No.7 Jianxue St., Wenhua Rd., Zhengzhou, China
*Contact email: huhongchao@gmail.com, beast01@sohu.com, yp@mail.ndsc.com.cn, gyf@mail.ndsc.com.cn

Abstract

The CICQ switches have inherent advantages in supporting multicast traffic, and scheduling policies can be simplified to a great extent when distributed scheduling is applied. However, simulation results indicate that the increment of multicast will block unicast, and finally reduce the performance of the entire switch. To overcome this deficiency, the paper proposes a new switch called MCICQ (Multicast supporting CICQ) which supports the uni- and multicast hybrid scheduling, and scheduling policies MFDR and MFS which support the parallel distributed uni- and multicast are also proposed. With the fanout splitting mechanism, both MFDR and MFS can achieve good performance without speedup, and their complexities are only O(1). MFS scheduling policy can also provide different bandwidth guarantees for uni- and multicast traffic. Simulation results under SPES show that both MFDR and MFS can achieve good performance.