Abstract
This paper presents a multicasting solution for shared-buffer ATM switch. The cell duplicating function is performed by a one-to-many modified demux circuit. A shared multicast server is used to translate input multicast cells to find destination ports and corresponding routing information. By using link-list based ring structure, the multicast server can provide high speed (5ns for search entry in 256-entry block in 0.8 μm CMOS process) and cascadable multicast translating function. In addition, the channel complexity of multipoint-to-multipoint multicast applications can be reduced to N channels per N users. The shared-buffer controller is modified by adding controlling and scheduling functions for multicasting queues to process the multicast feature.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2781-2784 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems |
Volume | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 1997 |
Event | Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS'97. Part 4 (of 4) - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 9 Jun 1997 → 12 Jun 1997 |