Multiprocessor parallel routing for the quality of service enabled Internet

Author

Song, Shaowen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Comput., Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Waterloo, Ont., Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

164

Abstract

This paper presents a parallel router and a packet switching mechanism by merging IPv6 and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) as the protocol for the quality of service (QoS) enabled Internet. The hardware architecture of the parallel router consists of N-general-purpose computers each combined with a newly designed inter-node communication unit. This parallel architecture provides the necessary speed required in cell switching for real-time applications. The IPv6 packet and ATM cell co-switching mechanism implemented by the router controlling software preserves the connectionless future for non-real-time applications and provides the QoS for real-time applications, through merging the IPv6 and ATM protocols. The IPv6 packet and ATM cell co-routing/switch mechanism is developed for the current parallel router and is presented along with the parallel hardware architecture

Keywords

Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; data communication equipment; multiprocessing systems; packet switching; parallel architectures; quality of service; real-time systems; special purpose computers; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; IPv6; asynchronous transfer mode; cell switching; hardware architecture; internode communication unit; multiprocessor parallel routing; packet switching mechanism; parallel architecture; quality of service enabled Internet; real-time applications; Application software; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computer architecture; Hardware; Merging; Packet switching; Protocols; Quality of service; Routing; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2000. PARELEC 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trois-Rivieres, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0759-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCEE.2000.873621

Filename

873621