CS-534: Packet Switch Architecture

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Course Content and Grading

Lecture Transparencies and Reading List:

• 1. Introduction (Reading List)
• 2. Basic Switching Notions (Transparencies)
• 3. Switch Generations & Buffer Memory Architectures (very DRAFT!)
• 4. ATM, IP, Switches, Routers (Reading List)
• 5. Switch Queueing Architectures & Performance (very DRAFT!)
• 6. Switching Fabric Topologies & Architectures
• 7. Output Scheduling for QoS (Reading List)
• 8. Flow Control, Switching Fabrics with Internal Backpressure

Projects:

• Wormhole IP over (Connectionless) ATM
  • Reading List: see course section 4
  • Project Topics
  • IP Traffic Trace Sources
• Software Implementation for QFC (Quantum Flow Control)
• Sceduling Algorithms for Input-Buffered Switches: simulation using CSIM.

Exercises:

• Exercise 1: Internal Blocking (due 3 March 1998)
• Exercise 2: Introduction to CSIM (due 10 March 1998). The User Guide of CSIM is here.
• Exercise 3: Simulation of Input and Output Queueing using CSIM (due 31 March 1998).
• Exercise 4: Permutation Routing on Banyans, Non-Blocking Routing on Benes Network (due 28 April 1998).