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The Message Flow Model for Routing in Wormhole-Routed Networks
July 1995 (vol. 6 no. 7)
pp. 755-760
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Xiaola Lin, Philip K. McKinley, Lionel M. Ni, "The Message Flow Model for Routing in Wormhole-Routed Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 755-760, July, 1995.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/71.395404,
author = {Xiaola Lin and Philip K. McKinley and Lionel M. Ni},
title = {The Message Flow Model for Routing in Wormhole-Routed Networks},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
volume = {6},
number = {7},
issn = {1045-9219},
year = {1995},
pages = {755-760},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/71.395404},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
TI - The Message Flow Model for Routing in Wormhole-Routed Networks
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SN - 1045-9219
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EPD - 755-760
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PY - 1995
KW - Channel dependency graph
KW - message flow model
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KW - multicast communication
KW - mesh networks
KW - deadlock-free routing
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a new approach to deadlock-free routing in wormhole-routed networks called the message flow model. This method may be used to develop deterministic, partially-adaptive, and fully-adaptive routing algorithms for wormhole-routed networks with arbitrary topologies. We first establish the necessary and sufficient condition for deadlock-free routing, based on the analysis of the message flow on each channel. We then use the model to develop new adaptive routing algorithms for 2D meshes.

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Index Terms:
Channel dependency graph, message flow model, wormhole routing, multicast communication, mesh networks, deadlock-free routing, adaptive routing.
Citation:
Xiaola Lin, Philip K. McKinley, Lionel M. Ni, "The Message Flow Model for Routing in Wormhole-Routed Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 755-760, July 1995, doi:10.1109/71.395404
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