Implementing the Advanced Switching Minimum Bandwidth Egress Link Scheduler

Author

Martínez, Raúl ; Alfaro, Francisco J. ; Sánchez, José L.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Sistemas Informaticos, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete

fYear

2006

fDate

24-26 July 2006

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

125

Abstract

Advanced switching (AS) is a new fabric-interconnect technology that further enhances the capabilities of PCI Express, which is the next PCI generation. On the other hand, the provision of quality of service (QoS) in computing and communication environments is currently the focus of much discussion and research in industry and academia. One of the mechanisms that AS provides to support QoS is the minimum bandwidth egress link scheduler, or just MinBW scheduler. In this paper, we propose several implementations of the MinBW scheduler and compare their performance by simulation. These implementations fulfill all the properties that an AS MinBW scheduler must have, including the interaction with the AS link layer flow control

Keywords

packet switching; peripheral interfaces; quality of service; scheduling; telecommunication congestion control; PCI Express; QoS; advanced switching; link layer flow control; minimum bandwidth egress link scheduler; quality of service; Bandwidth; Communication industry; Communication switching; Computer industry; Job shop scheduling; Network servers; Processor scheduling; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Computing and Applications, 2006. NCA 2006. Fifth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2640-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCA.2006.35

Filename

1659483