Hardware Comparison of Schedulers for Modular Optical Interconnection Networks

• Main Authors: Borromeo, J C, Cerutti, Isabella, Castoldi, Piero, Reyes, Rosula SJ, Andriolli, Nicola
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Optical switching technologies for high-performance computing and data centers; Modelling; design; implementation; Impairment mitigation; algorithms for advanced switching functionality; Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/ecce-faculty-pubs/32; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8818053
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We present the first FPGA implementation of the Two-Step Scheduler framework for modular optical interconnection networks. The longest-queue-first scheduling algorithm guarantees the lowest latency, while the iSLIP algorithm minimizes the hardware resources and scheduling duration.