Priority-based grant-aware scheduling for low-latency switching

This paper introduces new scheduling algorithms supporting low-latency switching. The proposed grant-aware (GA) algorithm improves the average delay performance by using the grant information of previous iteration. The simulation result shows that the average delay of GA algorithm is about one-tenth of the existing algorithm in high-load condition. We also introduce two priority-based scheduling algorithms grant-aware and priority-aware (GAPA) algorithm and cyclic scheduling with the longest-queue-first (C-LQF) algorithm. In the priority-based scheduling, the scheduling priority of VoQ is determined based on its queue size. GAPA and C-LQF consider the priority only after the first iteration to prevent the starvation problem. The simulation result shows that GAPA and C-LQF scheduling achieves better performance than GA in terms of average delay, maximum delay, and hotspot throughput.