Performance Study of Multi-Layered Multistage Interconnection Networks under Hotspot Traffic Conditions

TitlePerformance Study of Multi-Layered Multistage Interconnection Networks under Hotspot Traffic Conditions
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsVasiliadis D.C., Rizos G.E., Vassilakis C
JournalJournal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications
Volume2010
Pagination11 pages
KeywordsHotspot traffic, multi-layer networks, Multistage interconnection networks, Performance evaluation
AbstractThe 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
URLhttps://www.hindawi.com/journals/jcnc/2010/403056/
DOI10.1155/2010/403056