Interleaved Weighted Round-Robin: A Network Calculus Analysis

Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaee (1) , Jean-Yves Le Boudec (1) , Marc Boyer (2)

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2 DTIS, ONERA, Université de Toulouse [Toulouse]

Weighted Round-Robin (WRR) is often used, due to its simplicity, for scheduling packets or tasks. With WRR, a number of packets equal to the weight allocated to a flow can be served consecutively, which leads to a bursty service. Interleaved Weighted Round-Robin (IWRR) is a variant that mitigates this effect. We are interested in finding bounds on worst-case delay obtained with IWRR. To this end, we use a network calculus approach and find a strict service curve for IWRR. The result is obtained using the pseudo-inverse of a function. We show that the strict service curve is the best obtainable one, and that delay bounds derived from it are tight (i.e., worst-case) for flows of packets of constant size. Furthermore, the IWRR strict service curve dominates the strict service curve for WRR that was previously published. We provide some numerical examples to illustrate the reduction in worst-case delays caused by IWRR compared to WRR.

Mots clés: RESEAU COMMUNICATION; TEMPS REEL; CALCUL PERFORMANCE

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Mathématiques [math]; Informatique [cs]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaee, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Marc Boyer. Interleaved Weighted Round-Robin: A Network Calculus Analysis. International Teletraffic Congress, Sep 2020, Osaka, Japan. ⟨hal-03007964⟩