• DocumentCode
    1905814
  • Title

    Performance analysis of storage area network switches

  • Author

    Bianco, Andrea ; Giaccone, Paolo ; Giraudo, Enrico Maria ; Neri, Fabio ; Schiattarella, Enrico

  • Author_Institution
    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-14 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    192
  • Lastpage
    196
  • Abstract
    This paper focuses on a switching architecture designed for storage area network (SAN) applications, with a crossbar switching fabric and an aggregate bandwidth of hundreds of Gbps. We describe the architecture and adopt an abstract model of the flow-controlled, credit-based, packet transfer around the switching fabric. The major effects on performance of the credit-based flow control are investigated under different system parameters.
  • Keywords
    storage area networks; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication switching; telecommunication traffic; credit-based flow control; crossbar switching fabric; packet transfer; storage area network switch; Aggregates; Bandwidth; Fabrics; Local area networks; Network servers; Packet switching; Performance analysis; Programmable control; Storage area networks; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    High Performance Switching and Routing, 2005. HPSR. 2005 Workshop on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8924-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HPSR.2005.1503221
  • Filename
    1503221