Patent · US Expired

Scheduling the dispatch of cells in non-empty virtual output queues of multistage switches using a pipelined hierarchical arbitration scheme

US7046661B2 · kind B2 · utility

30Cited by
4References
34Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateJul 23, 2001
Grant dateMay 16, 2006
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 5, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2012/5681
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A pipeline-based matching scheduling approach for input-buffered switches relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with matching schemes, such as CRRD and CMSD. In the new approach, arbitration may operate in a pipelined manner. Each sub-scheduler is allowed to take more than one time slot for its matching. Every time slot, one of them provides a matching result(s). The sub-scheduler can use a matching scheme such as CRRD and CMSD.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.