EE 649 - Digital Network Switching

3 Credit(s)

This course covers the following: Switching fundamentals—matrix, multistage, shared memory, bus, and multiple bus switching fabrics; blocking, strictly nonblocking, and rearrangeable nonblocking switches. Space-division, time-division, and combined space- and time-division switching. Controller-based and self-routing switching; synchronous, frame, and cell/packet switching; Clos, Benes, Banyon, Knockout, Multistage Batcher-Banyon, Tandem Banyon, shuffle, toroidal, and recirculating switches. Buffer strategies, cut-through switching, multicasting, and priority handling; optical switching. Throughput, delay, and complexity performance analysis and implementation issues. Switching architectures for telephone, local-area to broadband networks, asynchronous transfer mode, and communication satellites, and their interconnections.