Multi-channel copy networks: architecture, performance model, fairness, and cell sequencing

This paper develops a copy network architecture that can maintain the cell sequence integration multichannel ATM switching. The architecture is internally nonblocking. Assuming that cells appear with fanout request values that are distributed independently from cell to cell, we also formulate a method of analyzing the performance of the copy network. We conduct a numerical study for the proposed architecture using this method, and the effects of key network and traffic variables are quantified under arbitrary types of fanout distribution.