SUPPORTING HIGH PRIORITY TRAFFIC IN WORMHOLE NETWORKS

Most existing wormhole networks do not provide support for prioritized traffic at the link level. Conventional demand multiplexing does not allow flexibility for fast movement of high priority messages such as for synchronization and control information. In this paper, an approac h to prioritized physical channel scheduling is proposed. The motivati on behind the proposed approach and its description are presented. The approach is evaluated and compared against the conventional demand mu ltiplexing for a wide range of system parameters. The results demonstr ate significant potential for designing high performance wormhole syst ems to support prioritized traffic. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Sci ence B.V.