General self-routing mechanism for multicasting control over bit-permuting switching networks
US7042878B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 15, 2001 |
| Grant date | May 9, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 26, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L45/00
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A self-routing multicast switching network composed of bicast cells interconnected as a bit-permuting network and, in particular, as a banyan-type network, and the concomitant general self-routing control mechanism for multicasting the packets over such networks. The self-routing mechanism includes the approach of determining the routing tag of a packet from the guide of the network and the destination addresses of the packet, and accomplishes the self-routing of the packets by the sorting of the packets.
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