Crossbar Arbiter Architecture for High-Speed MAPOS Switch

Tsuyoshi OGURA  Satoru YAGI  Tetsuo KAWANO  Mitsuru MARUYAMA  Naohisa TAKAHASHI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E83-D   No.5   pp.1028-1038
Publication Date: 2000/05/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Next Generation Internet Technologies and Their Applications)
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MAPOS,  high-speed switch,  crossbar,  arbiter,  

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Summary: 
This paper describes a crossbar-switch arbiter for a high-speed MAPOS switch. The arbiter uses the following techniques suitable for variable-length frame switching: 1. parallel processing for handling requests from network interfaces and for resource allocation, 2. techniques such as release-on-request, fast back-to-back transfer, and request prefetching to reduce the arbitration overhead, and 3. a resource sampling technique to enable efficient one-shot multicast processing. Our simulation-based performance evaluation and estimation of the scale of its logic circuits indicated that this arbiter can be implemented through simple hardware.