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Distributed PC based routers: bottleneck analysis and architecture proposal

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Title Distributed PC based routers: bottleneck analysis and architecture proposal
 
Creator KHAN, AJ
BIRKE, R
MANJUNATH, D
SAHOO, ANIRUDHA
BIANCO, A
 
Subject routers
computer networks
electric network topology
general purpose computers
 
Description Recent research in the different functional areas of modern routers have made proposals that can greatly increase the efficiency of these machines. Most of these proposals can be implemented quickly and often efficiently in software. We wish to use personal computers as forwarders in a network to utilize the advances made by researchers. We therefore examine the ability of a personal computer to act as a router. We analyze the performance of a single general purpose computer and show that I/O is the primary bottleneck. We then study the performance of distributed router composed of multiple general purpose computers. We study the performance of a star topology and through experimental results we show that although its performance is good, it lacks flexibility in its design. We compare it with a multistage architecture. We conclude with a proposal for an architecture that provides us with a forwarder that is both flexible and scalable.
 
Publisher IEEE
 
Date 2009-01-12T11:57:18Z
2011-11-28T07:04:57Z
2011-12-15T09:56:51Z
2009-01-12T11:57:18Z
2011-11-28T07:04:57Z
2011-12-15T09:56:51Z
2008
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, Shanghai, China, 15-17 May 2008, 57-62
978-1-4244-1982-1
10.1109/HSPR.2008.4734421
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/554
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/554
 
Language en