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An Adaptive and Fault Tolerant Wormhole Routing Strategy for k-ary n-cubes
January 1991 (vol. 40 no. 1)
pp. 2-12

The concept of virtual channels is extended to multiple virtual communication systems that provide adaptability and fault tolerance in addition to being deadlock-free. A channel dependency graph is taken as the definition of what connections are possible, and any routing function must use only those connections defined by it. Virtual interconnection networks allowing adaptive, deadlock-free routing are examined for three k-ary n-cube topologies: unidirectional, torus-connected bidirectional, and mesh-connected bidirectional.

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Index Terms:
adaptive routing; virtual interconnection networks; fault tolerant wormhole routing strategy; k-ary n-cubes; virtual channels; virtual communication systems; adaptability; deadlock-free; channel dependency graph; deadlock-free routing; unidirectional; torus-connected bidirectional; mesh-connected bidirectional; computer architecture; concurrency control; fault tolerant computing.
Citation:
D.H. Linder, J.C. Harden, "An Adaptive and Fault Tolerant Wormhole Routing Strategy for k-ary n-cubes," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 2-12, Jan. 1991, doi:10.1109/12.67315
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