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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'> <b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>MS Thesis</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'> </span><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Announcement</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Design of Asymmetric Multi-Channel Router for Heterogeneous Traffic</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'>Chenxing Ma<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'><b>Date: 28th April 2014</b><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'><b>Place: ECE Conference Room N328-D</b><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'><b>Time: 10.00 AM – 11:00 AM</b><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'><b>Committee Chair: </b>Dr. Yuhua Chen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'><b>Committee Members:</b><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'>Dr. E. Joe Charlson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'>Dr. Pauline Markenscoff <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'>Dr. Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>With the spread of the cloud-computing today, local networks have been gradually developed to have better support for cloud applications. For a specific sub-network, different ports may have different requirements. Traditional symmetric router assumes uniform resource distribution among all ports, overestimating resources needed at some ports. This thesis proposes a novel Asymmetric Multi-Channel edge router, which supports non-uniform port distribution based on the clients’ demand. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>In this work, the concept of Asymmetric Multi-Channel (AMC) router is introduced, and the architecture of the AMC router is designed. In order to verify the cost saving of the proposed router, a general cost model is developed to provide cost comparison between the traditional symmetric router and the proposed AMC router. A reconfigurable scheduling scheme is proposed, which can achieve constant-time (O(1)) performance with the introduction of pipelined parallel comparators and updaters. A configuration strategy is proposed for the most suitable resource distribution.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>