Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece

CS-534: Packet Switch Architecture

Spring 2013
Manolis Katevenis

  • Bibliography.
  • Course Description [PDF]

    Lecture Notes, Transparencies, Exercises:

    This Year:

    Chapter 1: Basic Concepts and Queueing Architectures
    Chapter 2: Link and Memory Architectures and Technology
    Chapter 3: Time Switching, Multi-Queue Memories, Shared Buffers, Output Queueing Family
    Chapter 4: Input Queueing (Time-Space Switching) and Combination Architectures
    Chapter 5: Switching Fabrics, Inverse Multiplexing
    Chapter 6: Flow Control in Buffered Switching Fabrics
    Chapter 7: Output Scheduling for Quality-of-Service (QoS) Guarantees
    Other Topics: Please refer to the bibliography pointed below (2003 and older)

    Previous Years:

  • Spring 2011; Spring 2009; Spring 2008; Spring 2007; Spring 2006.
  • Spring 2005 (last year with slides in HTML - GIF - JPEG format); Sp. 2004; Sp. 2003; Fall 2001; Sp. 2000; Sp. 1998.
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