Design and implementation of scheduling and switching architectures for high speed networks

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Quality of Service (QoS) schedulers are one of the most important components for the end-to-end QoS support in the Internet. The focus of this thesis is the hardware design and implementation of the QoS schedulers, that is scalable for high line speeds and large number of traffic flows. FPGA is the selected hardware platform. Previous work on the hardware design and implementation of QoS schedulers are mostly algorithm specific. In this thesis, a general architecture for the design of the class of Packet Fair Queuing (PFQ) schedulers is proposed. Worst Case Fair Weighted Fair Queuing Plus (WF2Q+) scheduler is implemented and tested in hardware to demonstrate the proposed architecture and design enhancements. The maximum line speed that PFQ algorithms can operate decreases as the number of scheduled flows increases. For this reason, this thesis proposes to aggregate the flows to scale the PFQ architecture to high line speeds. The Window Based Fair Aggregator (WBFA) algorithm that this thesis suggests for flow aggregation provides a tunable trade-off between the efficient use of the available bandwidth and the fairness among the constituent flows. WBFA is also integrated to the hardware PFQ architecture. The QoS support provided by the proposed PFQ architecture and WBFA is measured by conducting hardware experiments on a custom built high speed network testbed which consists of three data processing cards and a backplane. In these experiments, the input traffic is provided by the hardware traffic generator which is designed in the scope of this thesis.

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Quality of Service Scheduler., Telecommunication, High speed network.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613871/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20800

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M. Sanlı, “Design and implementation of scheduling and switching architectures for high speed networks,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2011.