A Pipelined-based Maximal-sized Matching (PMM) scheduling approach for input-buffered switches relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with a maximal matching scheme. In the PMM approach, arbitration may operate in a pipelined manner. Each subscheduler is allowed to take more than one time slot...http://www.google.de/patents/US20020181483?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20020181483 - Pipelined maximal-sized matching cell dispatch scheduling
