Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS'99)
Fair Scheduling in an Optical Interconnection Network
College Park, Maryland
March 24-March 28
ISBN: 0-7695-0381-0
Existing fair scheduling schemes have focused primarily on scheduling multiple flows to a single output. The limited work that has focused on scheduling multiple flows to multiple outputs has assumed a non-blocking, slotted-time, packet-based network with a centralized controller. This paper presents a fair scheduler suitable for use in bufferless circuit-switched blocking networks operating with distributed, asynchronous controllers. We begin by describing the potential for starvation in the Gemini interconnect network, an optical, circuit-switched network. A proposed distributed fair scheduler is presented and shown to solve this problem. The tradeoffs and limitations of performing many-to-many fair scheduling in general, and that of our fair scheduler in particular, are discussed.
Index Terms:
Optical Interconnection Networks, Fair Scheduling
Citation:
Ch'ng Shi Baw, Roger D. Chamberlain, Mark A. Franklin, "Fair Scheduling in an Optical Interconnection Network," mascots, pp.56, Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS'99), 1999