Nonblocking Electronic and Photonic Switching Fabrics

This state-of-the-art survey of switching fabric architectures gives special attention to combinatorial properties of switching fabrics - nonblockingness and rearrangeability. Also describing control algorithms proposed to control different architectures, it aims to overview recent advances in combinatorial properties of switching fabrics, including many new results obtained applicable to nonblocking operation of different switching fabric architectures and primarily for multicast connections and multirate connections. It contains a considerable amount of already known results, many presented in more detailed form. It is intended not only for post-graduate and PhD students but also for engineers and switching fabrics designers who want to gain knowledge on switching theory and especially on combinatorial properties of switching fabrics.