An integrated scheduling and buffer management scheme for input queued switches with finite buffer space

We introduce a buffer management scheme called iSMM (Integrated Scheduling and Memory Management) that can be employed jointly with any deterministic iterative scheduling algorithm. We applied iSMM over iSLIP, a popular scheduling algorithm, and study its effect under various input traffic conditions. Simulation results indicate iSMM to perform better than iSLIP and MWM both in terms of throughput and delay especially under non-uniform traffic.