Week 9: lecture on Monday 22 April only, then... have a nice Easter break...
Week 8: midterm exam on Monday 15 April;
lectures on Wed. 17 April (room H208) and Friday 19 April (room H206),
from 17:00 to 19:00 (5-7) on both days.
Lectures of weeks 6 - 7:
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1, 3, 8, and 10 April.
Lectures of weeks 4 - 5:
Wednesdays and Fridays, 20, 22, 27, and 29 March --but
on Fridays the time will be 11-1 and the room will be H206.
Lectures of weeks 1 - 3:
Mon. 25/2 and Fri. 1/3;
then Mondays and Wednesdays, 4, 6, 11, and 13 March.
Lecture Notes, Transparencies, Exercises:
This Year:
Chapter 1:Basic Concepts and Queueing Architectures
Chapter 2:
Link and Memory Architectures and Technology
2.1
Links, Throughput/Buffering, Multi-Access Overheads
[Slides in PDF]
[Slides Handout in PDF]
[to be done: move "cut-through" from 3.1 to 2.1.
Older text for section 2.1.1:
[Text in HTML]
[Text in PDF] ]
Exercises 2
(due 20 Mar 2013, week 4.1):
Transmission Rate and Throughput, Turn-Around Overhead
[HTML]
[PDF]
[note - to be fixed:
exercise 2.4 is dulpicated as also exercise 4.2]
3.3, 3.4
Multiple Queues within a Buffer Memory, Queueing for Multicast Traffic
[Slides in PDF]
[Slides Handout in PDF]
[animated PPT
for queue operations with free-block preallocation]
Exercises 8
(due 22 May 2013 -wk.11.2):
Input Queueing, VOQ Crossbar Scheduling, and their Simulation
[HTML]
[PDF]
[in 2009 and earlier, this exercise concerned a
simulation by hand, rather than in software,
of a CIOQ switch with a speedup of 2:
2009 version (HTML)]
[Alternative source, containing a subset of above material,
mostly in a similar form --in a few cases formatted slightly better:
ACACES 2007
(Third International Summer School on
Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems)
- Slides for the course on
"Queue and Flow Control Architectures for Interconnection Switches",
by Manolis Katevenis, Part 4 of 4, in PDF:
[Slides]
[Handouts]
Flow and Congestion Control in Switching Fabrics]