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Summary: Multiprocessor Scheduling in Processor-based Router
Platforms: Issues and Ideas
Anand Srinivasan, Philip Holman, James Anderson, Sanjoy Baruah and Jasleen Kaur
Department of Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
E-mail: {anands,holman,anderson,baruah,jasleen}@cs.unc.edu
Abstract
Two important trends are expected to guide the de-
sign of next-generation networks. First, with the
commercialization of the Internet, providers will use
value-added services to differentiate their service of-
ferings from other providers; such services require
the use of sophisticated resource scheduling mech-
anisms in routers. Second, to enable extensibility
and the deployment of new services in a rapid and
cost-effective manner, routers will be instantiated us-
ing programmable network processors. In this re-
search, our goal is to develop sophisticated multipro-
cessor scheduling mechanisms that would enable net-
works that deploy such router platforms to provide
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