Most present day switching systems, in Internet routers and data-center switches, employ a single input-queued crossbar to interconnect input ports with output ports. Such switches need to compute a matching, between input and output ports, for each switching cycle (time slot). The main challenge in designing such matching algorithms is to deal with the unfortunate tradeoff between the quality of the computed matching and the computational complexity of the algorithm. In this paper, we propose a general approach that can significantly boost the performance of both SERENA and iSLIP, yet incurs only O(1) additional computational complexity at each input/output port. Our approach is a novel proposing strategy, called Queue-Proportional Sampling (QPS) , that generates an excellent starter matching . We show, through rigorous simulations, that when starting with this starter matching, iSLIP and SERENA can output much better final matching decisions, as measured by the resulting throughput and delay performance, than they otherwise can.
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