Abstract - Replication is considered as a viable way to decrease
the probability of internal contention in multistage switching systems.
This technique is based on the use of more than one banyan network for
the same inlet-outlet pairs. A key issue in replication is to decide how
the cells coming via the same inlet are to be distributed over the existing
banyan networks called planes. There are two well known policies devised
to load the incoming cells into the planes, namely Random Loading (RND)
and Alternate Sharing (AS). In this paper, we propose a new loading technique
and then examine the Switching Element (SE) and link complexities of these
three techniques. Moreover, we evaluate the performance of them under uniform
traffic.