Fast packet switching

About: Fast packet switching is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5641 publications have been published within this topic receiving 111603 citations.

A 3-stage interconnection structure for very large packet switches

Abstract: Proposes a three-stage broadband packet-switch architecture for a future central office with more than 16000 ports. The switch is constructed by interconnecting many small independent switch modules, which can be implemented using modifications of various well-studied switch fabric designs. Multiple paths are provided for each input-output pair, and the channel grouping technique is used to decrease delay and increase throughput. A datagram packet routing approach is adopted in order to eliminate the table lookup that will be required by virtual-circuit routing. Ways of guaranteeing the sequence integrity of packets are discussed. It is estimated from performance analyses that 32768-port switches can be constructed and can perform well based on switch fabrics of no more than 128 ports. >

Terabit per second packet switch having distributed out-of-band control of circuit and packet switching communications

Abstract: A telecommunications switch which has a central switch fabric made up of multiple crossbars that can be used to switch either circuit switched or packet switch communications as long as appropriate input and output interfaces and controllers are provided. Thus, a large, high throughput telecommunications switch is provided where the expensive switch fabric core can remain the same and the interfaces and control cards changed as the relative demands for circuit switched communications and packet switched communications, such as ATM, evolve. Besides being flexible, this switch may also be fault tolerant.

Packet switching label assignment across multiple packet switching forwarding groups

Abstract: In one embodiment, a packet switching device assigns a same particular packet switching label to each particular route of a plurality of particular routes having the same one or more best paths, wherein the plurality of particular routes includes routes from at least two different forwarding groups. A forwarding group is defined as a specific route, one or more routes associated with a same customer edge router, or one or more routes associated with a single virtual routing and forwarding domain (VRF). The packet switching device advertises to other packet switching device(s) to add this same particular label to packets having one of the plurality of particular routes, which they do. The packet switching device then packet switches packets based on the particular label received in a label field in a header of these packets.

Packet communications unit

Abstract: To analyze traffic at an application level, a stream according to TCP or SCTP is required to be reconstructed and to be analyzed. When a packet is transferred to analyzing equipment using a port mirroring function with which a router and a switch are provided, transferred traffic volume increases and exceeds the throughput of the analyzing equipment. As only a part of packets configuring a stream is transferred to the analyzing equipment in transfer to the analyzing equipment using a packet sampling function, analysis at the application level is impossible. To solve the problem, when a packet communication unit recognizes a stream start packet, samples a stream initiated by the packet on a condition and at a rate respectively determined beforehand and generates a condition for copying the packet based upon information of both ends of the stream included in the packet, packets sampled in units of stream can be transferred to the analyzing equipment.

Packet switch network protocol

Abstract: A first of a plurality of nodes in a multiprocessor system transmits a data packet to a second of the plurality of nodes over a data channel when the first node detects a predetermined sequence of bits on a control channel connected therebetween. The data packet is preceded on the data channel by a header which includes a plurality of fields informing the second node of the beginning of the data packet, the length of the data packet and the sequence number assigned to the packet. The data packet is followed by a field which enables the second node to determine whether the data packet was received correctly. If the second node determines that the data packet was received correctly, the data packet is stored in the node and an acknowledgement sequence is transmitted to the first node over the control channel. However, if an error occurs during the transmission of the data packet, the protocol enters an error state by removing all signal information from the data and control channels. Thereafter, a recovery processor, which is associated with each of the plurality of nodes, analyzes the state of the nodes at the time of the error in order to determine which corrective action needed to recover the respective node. The data link protocol also facilitates the transmission of a data packet from a first node through an intermediate node to a final node without storing the data packet in the intermediate node.