IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'01)
Calculation of Deadline Missing Probability in a QoS Capable Cluster Interconnect
Cambridge, Massachusette
October 08-October 10
ISBN: 0-7695-1432-4
The growing use of clusters in diverse applications, many of which have real-time constraints, requires Quality-of- Service (QoS) support from the underlying cluster interconnect. In this paper, we propose an analytical model that captures the characteristics of a QoS capable wormhole router, which is the basic building block of cluster networks. The model captures the behavior of integrated traffic in a cluster and computes the average deadline missing probability for real-time traffic. The cluster interconnect, considered here, is a hypercube network. Comparison of Deadline Missing Probability (DMP) using the proposed model with that of the simulation shows that our analytical model is accurate and useful.
Index Terms:
Analytical Model, Cluster Network, SAN, Quality-of-Service, Pipelined Router Architecture, Virtual-Clock, Wormhole Switching.
Citation:
Eun Jung, Kim Ki Hwan Yum, Chita R. Das, "Calculation of Deadline Missing Probability in a QoS Capable Cluster Interconnect," nca, pp.0036, IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'01), 2001