Chen, Yuhua2016-08-182016-08-18May 20142014-05http://hdl.handle.net/10657/1408With 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 uniformed resource distribution among all ports, overestimating resources needed at some ports. This thesis proposes an innovative Asymmetric Multi-Channel edge router, which supports non-uniformed port distribution based on the clients’ demand. 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 pipeline paralleled comparators and updaters. A configuration strategy is proposed for the most suitable resource distribution.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).AMCAMC routerCloud computingInnovative Asymmetric Multi-Channel edge router2016-08-18Thesisborn digital