Efficient randomized algorithms for input-queued switch scheduling

Year
2002
Author(s)
Giaccone P., B. Prabhakar and D. Shah
Source
IEEE Micro, 22(1), pp. 10-18, 2002
Url
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=988685

High-performance schedulers for input-queued (IQ) switches must find, for each time slot, a good matching between inputs and outputs to transfer packets. At high line rates or for large switches, finding good matchings is complicated. A suite of randomized algorithms for switch scheduling provides performance comparable to that of well-known, effective matching algorithms, yet is simple to implement.