Pulsar: Non-blocking packet switching with shift-register rings

Gary J. Muralwni; Roy H. Campbell; Michael Faiman

doi:10.1145/99508.99546

Pulsar: Non-blocking packet switching with shift-register rings

Gary J. Muralwni, Roy H. Campbell, Michael Faiman

Computer Science

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Abstract

This paper discusses the design of a switch for high-speed computer networking at gigabit rates. We present the Pulsar switch, a non-blocking design based on a high-spin-rate, port-dedicated, word-parallel, shift-register ring. Several design alternatives address the problem of Head-Of-Line blocking. In contrast to Batcher-Banyan switches, access to the ring is asynchronous which facilitates low delay and arbitrary packet length. The switch can support ATM cells simultaneously with packets sized for applications such as single characters, memory words, disk blocks, memory pages, or video images. Pulsar can be used as a high-throughput computer backplane replacement. The design can be implemented with existing high-speed circuit technology.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	145-155
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	0897914058, 9780897914055
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/99508.99546
State	Published - Aug 1 1990
Event	1990 ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: Sep 26 1990 → Sep 28 1990

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990

Other

Other	1990 ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990
Country	United States
City	Philadelphia
Period	9/26/90 → 9/28/90

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Hardware and Architecture
Software
Computer Networks and Communications

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Muralwni, G. J., Campbell, R. H., & Faiman, M. (1990). Pulsar: Non-blocking packet switching with shift-register rings. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990 (pp. 145-155). (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/99508.99546

Pulsar : Non-blocking packet switching with shift-register rings. / Muralwni, Gary J.; Campbell, Roy H.; Faiman, Michael.

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 1990. p. 145-155 (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Muralwni, GJ, Campbell, RH & Faiman, M 1990, Pulsar: Non-blocking packet switching with shift-register rings. in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 145-155, 1990 ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990, Philadelphia, United States, 9/26/90. https://doi.org/10.1145/99508.99546

Muralwni GJ, Campbell RH, Faiman M. Pulsar: Non-blocking packet switching with shift-register rings. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 1990. p. 145-155. (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990). https://doi.org/10.1145/99508.99546

Muralwni, Gary J. ; Campbell, Roy H. ; Faiman, Michael. / Pulsar : Non-blocking packet switching with shift-register rings. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 1990. pp. 145-155 (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990).

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