— Operators need routers to provide service guarantees such as guaranteed flow rates and fairness among flows, so as to support real-time traffic and traffic engineering. How...
Abstract—Link bundling is a way to increase routing scalability whenever a pair of Label Switching Routers in MPLS are connected by multiple parallel links. However, link bundlin...
Modern routers and switch fabrics can have hundreds of input and output ports running at up to 10 Gb/s; 40 Gb/s systems are starting to appear. At these rates, the performance of ...
Sailesh Kumar, Jonathan S. Turner, Patrick Crowley
— The amount of memory in buffered crossbars in combined input-crosspoint buffered switches is proportional to the number of crosspoints, or O(N2 ), where N is the number of port...
Abstract--The Gemini interconnect is a dual technology (optical and electrical) interconnection network designed for use in tightlycoupled multicomputer systems. It consists of a c...
Roger D. Chamberlain, Mark A. Franklin, Ch'ng Shi ...