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Flow and congestion control in switch architectures for multi-hop, memory efficient fabrics

US8467342B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Zhi-Hern Loh · Pasadena, US
Michael Davies · Portland, US
Uri Cummings · Santa Monica, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 6, 2011
Grant date	Jun 18, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 4, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L49/254
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A shared memory switch and switch fabric architecture are described which employ partitions of the shared memory to implement multiple, independent virtual congestion domains, thereby allowing congestion to be handled for different classes of traffic independently.

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