A multimedia router architecture to provide high performance and QoS guarantees to mixed traffic

B. Caminero1, C. Carrion1, F.J. Quiles1, J. Duato2, S. Yalamanchili3
1Department of Computer Science, Escuela Politecnica Superior, University de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
2Department of Computer Engineering (DISCA), University of Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
3School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Tóm tắt

The explosive growth in using scalable and cost-effective clusters and local area environments involve the design of high performance networks aimed at providing QoS to multimedia flows. Thus, the main goal pursued by the Multi-Media (MMR) project is to design a single-chip router able to efficiently handle multimedia flows and best-effort traffic. In this paper we focus on the performance evaluation of the MMR architecture using a mix of CBR, VBR and best effort workload. Preliminary simulation results show that, by using simple link and switch scheduling algorithms, the router is able to achieve a link bandwidth utilization of 80%, while still providing QoS guarantees to both CBR and VBR traffic in the presence of best-effort traffic.

Từ khóa

#Telecommunication traffic #Switches #Bandwidth #Bit rate #Switching circuits #Scheduling algorithm #Traffic control #Multiprocessor interconnection networks #Random access memory #Probes

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