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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
May. 25, 1999
Sharif M. Shahrier, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Alexander T. Ishii, Princeton, NJ (US);
NEC USA, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A novel architecture and implementation of a Round-Robin Scheduler (RRS) for high capacity ATM switches is presented. A port is selected from a set of alternating real-time/non real-time priority ports, based on the priority of the port, the minimum cell-rate (MCR) assigned to the ports and the backpressure signals coming from the output buffers. A fast implementation of the scheduler was derived using a binary tree structure. The nodes in the binary tree act as “cut through” switches, and thus the scheduler is able to operate at high speed. This scheduler is amenable for implementation in high speed silicon technology. It is compact in terms of logic gate requirements, very scalable and is a viable option in Gigabit ATM switches.