PBC: A Partially Buffered Crossbar Packet Switch

The crossbar fabric is widely used as the interconnect of high-performance packet switches due to its low cost and scalability. There are two main variants of the crossbar fabric: unbuffered and internally buffered. On one hand, unbuffered crossbar fabric switches exhibit the advantage of using no internal buffers. However, they require a...

On the Integration of Unicast and Multicast Cell Scheduling in Buffered Crossbar Switches

Internet traffic is a mixture of unicast and multicast flows. Integrated schedulers capable of dealing with both traffic types have been designed mainly for Input Queued (IQ) buffer-less crossbar switches. Combined Input and crossbar queued (CICQ) switches, on the other hand, are known to have better performance than their buffer-less...