A New Integrated Unicast/Multicast Scheduler for Input-Queued Switches

Chin, K.-W.

Researchers have thus far considered scheduling unicast and multicast traffic separately, and have paid little attention to integrated schedulers. To this end, we present a new integrated scheduler that considers both unicast and multicast traffic simultaneously and also addresses key shortcomings of existing approaches. Specifically, we outline a scheduler that achieves 100% throughput, and unlike existing schemes, do not require a tuning knob. Moreover, from our extensive simulation studies, we show that it works well in uniform, non-uniform and bursty traffic scenarios.

Cite as: Chin, K.-W. (2010). A New Integrated Unicast/Multicast Scheduler for Input-Queued Switches. In Proc. Eighth Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2010) Brisbane, Australia. CRPIT, 107. Chen, J. and Ranjan, R. Eds., ACS. 13-20

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