Robustness measurement for scalable switch fabric

Abstract

Traditional robustness measurements are not suitable for large-scale scalable switch fabrics.Therefore,a novel robustness measure named failure influence was introduced,and improved algorithms for its metrics were also proposed.Experimental results showed that failure influence measurement can represented subtle robustness differences among various scalable switch fabrics.Failure Influence measurement was proved to be an appropriate robustness measurement for large-scale scalable switch fabrics.

Keywords

• scalable router;scalable switch fabric;robustness measurement;failure influence;direct network