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Cut-through switching


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    • Cut-through routing
    • Switching, Cut-through
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    • found: Work cat.: Sivaram, R. Multicasting in irregular networks with cut-through switches using tree-based multidestination worms, 1997.
    • found: ACM SIGCOMM Conference (1996 : Stanford University, Calif.). Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication, 1996:p. 188 (Cut-through switching is a variant of wormhole routing in which the tail of a blocked worm is totally reassembled in the switch instead of being backpressured into the network, as in wormhole switching)
    • found: FOLDOC, Apr. 11, 2007(cut-through switching -- The application of wormhole routing to packets in a packet switching system so that forwarding of a packet starts as soon as its destination is known, before the whole packet had [sic] arrived)
    • found: TechWeb: TechEncyclopedia, via WWW, Apr. 11, 2007(Cut through switch -- A switching device that begins to output an incoming data packet before the packet is completely received)
    • found: Wikipedia, Apr. 11, 2007(Cut-through switching -- In computer networking, cut-through switching is a switching method for packet switching systems, wherein the switch starts forwarding a frame (or packet) before the whole frame has been received, normally as soon as the destination address is processed. This technique reduces latency through the switch, but decreases reliability ... The main reason for not adopting cut-through routing is queueing backlog)
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    • 2007-04-12: new
    • 2007-10-18: revised
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