Highway transfer: a new packet forwarding technique for real-time applications
Tokuro Kubo, K. Yoguchi · 2002
A novel packet forwarding technique is proposed. Low network delay is obtained through the use of a special nodal switching mechanism and a routing policy. A set of district paths called highways, each of which comprises concatenated links, is defined over a network. Nodes are configured so that packets directed to the output link belonging to the same highway as the input link are handled with high priority in exiting the node. Thus, the packets transferred along highways experience short delay times. Routing forces the packets to follow the paths, which consist mostly of the highways, to reach the destination nodes. Throughput-delay characteristics of this technique have been evaluated analytically. The results show its superior performance compared with conventional techniques.>