INVESTIGADORES
FINOCHIETTO jorge Manuel
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
A Distributed Scheduling Algorithm for an Optical Switching Fabric
Autor/es:
BIANCO, A.; CARTA, E.; CUDA, D.; FINOCHIETTO, J.M.; NERI, F.
Lugar:
Beijing, China
Reunión:
Conferencia; IEEE International Conference on Communications; 2008
Institución organizadora:
IEEE
Resumen:
Designing switching architectures for network routers and switches needs to consider limits imposed by the electronic technology, like small bandwidth x distance factors, power density constraints, energy consumption and dissipation issues. Introducing optical technologies to implement switching functions can overcome several of the current design limits. We propose a cost-effective architecture implementing an optical switch without any need for optoelectronic conversion within the switching fabric. We further propose a distributed scheduling scheme, based on an extension of the Fasnet protocol, and we compare it to classical centralized scheduling algorithms, showing that a distributed scheduler can provide performance comparable to the ones offered by more complex centralized schedulers.
