An increasing number of high performance internetworking protocol routers, LAN and
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switches use a switched backplane based on a crossbar …

Aggressive research on gigabit-per-second networks has led to dramatic improvements in
network transmission speeds. One result of these improvements has been to put pressure …

There is a new trend in the architecture of high performance Internet routers: congested,
shared backplanes are being replaced by much faster switched backplanes that allow …

We develop a general methodology, mainly based upon Lyapunov functions, to derive
bounds on average delays, and on queue size averages and variances of complex systems …

Advanced input queuing is an attractive, promising architecture for high-speed ATM
switches, because it combines the low cost of input queuing with the high performance of …

We consider cell-based switch and router architectures whose internal switching matrix does
not provide enough speed to avoid input buffering. These architectures require a scheduling …

Input queued (IQ) switch architectures with virtual output queues (VOQ) scale up to very high
speeds and have been a subject of intense research in the past decade. VOQ IQ switches …

One of the most widely used architectures for packet switches is the crossbar. A special
version of it is the buffered crossbar, where small buffers are associated with the crosspoints; …

We consider input-queued switch architectures dealing at their interfaces with variable-size
packets, but internally operating on fixed-size cells. Packets are segmented into cells at …

Many networking/computing applications require high speed switching for multicast traffic at
the switch/router level to save network bandwidth. However, existing queuing-based packet …