The folded hypercube ATM switches

Abstract

With the increasing demand and growth of high-speed networks, it is imperative to develop high performance network switches that also have low complexity. Over the years, many high performance ATM switches have been proposed. The majority of these switches has high performances but also have very high hardware complexities. Therefore, there is a need for switch designs with lower complexity and high performance. The authors are proposing the use of the folded hypercube (FHC) as a new infrastructure for ATM switches. This paper presents two novel ATM switches that are implemented from the FHC networks. It presents the design of the two switches, discusses how the simulation models are developed, and gives the analysis of the simulation results. Finally, the performances of the two switch models are compared to other switches in the literature.