The Knockout Switch

Idea of the Paper

            This paper tries to bring out the features of the Knockout Switch as a new and a high-performance packet switching architecture that has been proposed. The Knockout Switch has been proposed due to the fact that ATM-based B-ISDNs have necessitated the need for fast packet switches (FPS) that have the capability to provide acceptable Quality of Service (QoS) to a wide range of services that they should support. There have been proposals of other switches but research outcomes from the field of FPS have settled on the Knockout Switches because it has low delay and cell loss probabilities.

Addressed Challenge of the Paper     

            The addressed challenge in this paper is the fact that the world has been witnessing significant growth in the way optical fiber is deployed within buildings in various cities, states, and countries. Additionally, there are issues of optical fiber deployment even between continents. Furthermore, there are continuing advances being made in the field of optical communications whereby the current rates of transmission on a single fiber in the Gbit per the second realm where there is still more than a thousand-fold increase in capacity possible in theory. The tremendous progress in transmission is commendable. However, the problem lies in the advances made in the switching technology required in the building of wideband integrated communication networks. It is thought that such switching may be achieved in the future through optical means. However, currently, there are no appropriate electronic architectures that would enable transition into the next decade (Yeh, Michael, & Acampora, 1987).

Novelty of the Paper

            The novelty of the paper is that it tries to give a comprehensive analysis of the performance of the Knockout Switch by relating it to the cell-loss probabilities and showing how queue length is distributed for a wide range of burst of parameters. Additionally, the paper tries to show how the Knockout Switch is one of the fast packet switches (FPS) that has low cell-loss probability and latency under steady input traffic. Therefore, the paper tries to show the tremendous progress that has been made in transmission and how the current switching technology cannot support it. Such an analysis had not been carried it before. What the world had been showing are the wide steps that have been made by transmission and not how there is a need for a new switching technology.

Conclusion Result of the Paper

            The conclusion of the paper is a convincing proposal of the high-performance packet switching architecture: the Knockout Switch. The conclusion shows how the Knockout Switch provides a direct interconnection path between the switch inputs and the outputs. Therefore, the Knockout Switch makes us have a great simplification of the buffer design thereby achieving more efficient switch. The results of the conclusion make the world see the need for the current achievement of transmission to be backed by a switch that matches its advances, therefore, the need for the adoption of the Knockout Switch. 

Opinion

My opinion about the paper is that there is a need for a switch that accommodates all the advances that have been made in the transmission. However, there should be elaborate information of the switch that is thought to meet all the needs. Therefore, the paper discusses all the information that we need to know about the proposed switch: the Knockout Switch.

References

Yeh, Y.-S., Michael, G., & Acampora, A. S. (1987). The Knockout Switch: A simple, modular     architecture for high-performance packet switching. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in       Communication, 5 (8), 1274-1283.

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