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Design Requirements and Architectures for Multicast ATM Switching

Wen De ZHONG, Kenichi YUKIMATSU

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By addressing design requirements for multicast ATM switching, this paper attempts to provide an integrated view of modular and expandable switch architectures suitable for both unicast and multicast switching for future B-ISDNs. Several large and modular multicast ATM switching architectures are discussed, each of which handles different traffic situations. These architectures consist of multiple shared-buffer copy network modules of adequate size suitable for fabrication on a single chip, and small output memory switch modules. A new modular link-grouped multistage interconnection network is proposed for interconnecting copy network modules and memory switch modules, so that future large multicast ATM switching networks can be built in a modular fashion. The described modular architectures can significantly facilitate signal synchronization in large-scale switching networks.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E77-B No.11 pp.1420-1428
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1994/11/25
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Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Distributed Architecture for Next Generation Communication Networks)
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