@article {vasiliadis2011b,
	title = {Performance Study of Multi-Layered Multistage Interconnection Networks under Hotspot Traffic Conditions},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications},
	volume = {2010},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {11 pages},
	abstract = {The performance of Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) under hotspot traffic, where some percentage of the traffic is targeted at single nodes, which are also called hot-spots, is of crucial interest. The prioritizing of packets has already been proposed at previous works as alleviation to the tree saturation problem, leading to a scheme that natively supports 2-class priority traffic. In order to prevent hotspot traffic from degrading uniform traffic we expand previous studies by introducing multi-layer Switching Elements (SEs) at last stages in an attempt to balance between MIN performance and cost. In this paper the performance evaluation of dual-priority, double-buffered, multi-layer MINs under single hotspot setups is presented and analyzed using simulation experiments. The findings of this paper can be used by MIN designers to optimally configure their networks},
	keywords = {Hotspot traffic, multi-layer networks, Multistage interconnection networks, Performance evaluation},
	doi = {10.1155/2010/403056},
	url = {https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jcnc/2010/403056/},
	author = {D.C. Vasiliadis and G.E. Rizos and Costas Vassilakis}
}
