A unifying approach to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for nonblocking multicast 3-stage clos networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1581-1586

  Hwang, F K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3 stage Clos network; Strictly nonblocking switching network; Wide sense nonblocking (WSNB) switching network; Window algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTICASTING; SWITCHES;

STRICTLY NONBLOCKING SWITCHING NETWORK; WIDE SENSE NONBLOCKING (WSNB) SWITCHING NETWORK; WINDOW ALGORITHM;

SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EID: 26844452834     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2005.852839     Document Type: Article

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