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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, 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 com-
mercialization of the Internet, providers will use value-
added services to differentiate their service offerings
from other providers; many services require the use
of sophisticated resource scheduling mechanisms in
routers. Second, to enable extensibility and the deploy-
ment of new services in a rapid and cost-effective man-
ner, routers will be instantiated using programmable
network processors. Our research objective is to de-
velop sophisticated multiprocessor scheduling mecha-
nisms that would enable networks that deploy such
router platforms to provide service guarantees to ap-
plications. In this paper, we make two contributions.
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