Design and analysis of a fault tolerant switch for B-ISDN
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[Thesis]
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T. M. Al-Jarad
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King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1997
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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134
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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M.S.
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King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia)
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1997
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In this thesis, we present a high performance fault tolerant switch for B-ISDN, called the Reliable and Zealous Network (RAZAN). It consists of N Log2N switching elements of size n + 1 usd\timesusd n + 1, where N is the number of inputs and n = Log2N is the number of stages. The performance of the network is evaluated analytically as well as through simulation under uniform traffic load. RAZAN shows a high throughput in the presence or absence of faults compared to a number of recently introduced networks. Moreover, RAZAN has a high terminal reliability even for large network sizes. The architecture of RAZAN also offers high fault tolerance, in-sequence delivery of cells, simple routing, and regularity.