%0 Journal Article
%T Integration of Unicast and Multicast Scheduling in Input-Queued Packet Switches with High Scalability
%A Yongbo Jiang 1
%A Zhiliang Qiu 2
%A Jian Zhang 3
%A Jun Li 4
%J International Journal of Soft Computing and Software Engineering
%D 2012
%I Advance Academic Publisher
%R 10.7321/jscse.v2.n4.2
%X This paper focuses on the scalability problems for high-speed switches, and presents an integrated scheduling algorithm that supports unicast and multicast traffic efficiently in input-queued packet switches. Considering the tradeoff balancing complexity and performance, the proposed integrated algorithm performs without iteration, and reduces the scheduling overhead to O(N) with a two-phase (request-grant) sequential scheduling for unicast and multicast traffic. In addition, it can be implemented in a fully distributed way, which is more suitable for high-speed switches. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm exhibits a good performance in terms of throughput and average delay, at different traffic compositions under various traffic patterns.
%K integrated scheduling algorithm
%K IQ switches
%K multicast
%K scalability
%U http://www.jscse.com/papers/?vol=2&no=4&n=2