| Author(s) | Sami S. AI-Wakeel |
| Affiliation | Departmentof ComputerEngineering,Collegeof Compllterand InfGnl/atiGn Sciences KingSaud university,Rimdh, SaudiArabia |
| Title | Architecture Design of an ATM Switch |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Computer & Information Sciences. Volume 9, No 1. (1997/1417) |
| Abstract | Abstract. One of the key issues that must be fulfilled to realize B1SDN. is to develop high speed and high capacity ATM packet switches. For this. many technical problems must be investigated, such as design of switch architecture. development of switch protocols. and evaluation of the switch performance. In this paper we will propose an ATM switch with a shared medium architecture. The medium is a high speed fiber optic network with reservation based access protocol. The switch uses a novel interconnection topology between the switch units to reduce the fiber optics network aggregate data rate for a high dimensionality switch. The resultant switch' dimensionality estimate shows that with a switch unit network bus rate of 4 Gb/s . a fully connected broadband switch with 16384 I/O STS-3C lines (155.52 Mb/s port bandwidth) can be realized. Moreover, the architecture of the switch allows a modular growth. meets the need for heterogeneous and dynamically changing mix of traffic. and provides multi-point connection capability. Key words: ATM switches; Fast packet switching: Shared medium switches. |
