Exact emulation of a priority queue with a switch and delay lines
Exact emulation of a priority queue with a switch and delay lines
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DOI:
10.1007/s11134-006-6669-x
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发表时间:
2006-07
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1.2
通讯作者:
A. Sarwate;V. Anantharam
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作者:
A. Sarwate;V. Anantharam
All-optical packet switched networking is hampered by the problem of realizing viable queues for optical packets. Packets can be buffered in delay lines, but delay lines do not functionally emulate queues from an input-output point of view. In this paper we consider the problem ofexactemulation of a priority queue of sizeKusing a switching system comprised of a switch of size (M+ 1) × (M+ 1), which has one distinguished input for external arrivals, one distinguished output for external departures, and fixed-length delay lines of lengthsL1,L2, ...,LMconnecting the other inputs and outputs in pairs. We measure the complexity of such an emulation byM+ 1. We prove thatand present a construction which works with; further, in our construction. We also sketch an idea for an all-optical packet switched communication network architecture based onapproximateemulation of priority queues of finite size using switches and delay lines, with erasure control coding at the packet level.