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InfiniBand Architecture(IBA) adopts a mechanism of Virtual Lanes(VL) to support various QoS, improve link utilization and avoid deadlock. IBA packets are placed in a buffer corresponding to each VL and are scheduled by a VL arbiter. Since the number of the packets through each VL may be different, the throughput can be improved by allocating buffers according to the packet characteristics. In this paper, a new buffer allocation scheme using VL arbitration table is proposed and the superiority of the network performance is shown through the simulation results.
This work is partly supported by the IT System Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute(KETI).
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Yi, H., Park, S., Kim, M., Jeon, K. (2003). An Efficient Buffer Allocation Technique for Virtual Lanes in InfiniBand Networks. In: Chung, CW., Kim, CK., Kim, W., Ling, TW., Song, KH. (eds) Web and Communication Technologies and Internet-Related Social Issues — HSI 2003. HSI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2713. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45036-X_28
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