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CS-534: Packet Switch Architecture

1. Links, Circuit Switching

Subsections in the current document:

1.1 Three Different Worlds now Converging

Three Different Worlds now Converging

1.2 Point-to-Point Links versus Shared Media

Shared medium link: turn-around overhead

how many bits is the distance d worth?

Shared medium link: arbitration delay, lack of parallelism

1.3 Serial versus Parallel Transmission

Distance versus transmission type

Parallel to serial conversion (transmitter)

Serial to parallel conversion (receiver) -clock phases

Serial to parallel conversion (receiver) -datapath

1.4 Digital Telephony, Circuit Switching

Reading Assignment:
Read section 8.2 (Circuit Switching), pp. 162-175, from the book (S. Keshav: "An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking").

Sampling rate, frames, multiplexing, demultiplexing

Time-Division Switching - Time Slot Interchange

Add/Drop Multiplexor: a simple, 3-port switch

Space-Division Switching, Crossbar, TST switch

Multi-stage switches, TSSST, inverse multiplexing

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Last updated: February 2000, by M. Katevenis.