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Augmented Ring Networks
June 2001 (vol. 12 no. 6)
pp. 598-609
 ASCII Text x William Aiello, Sandeep N. Bhatt, Fan R.K. Chung, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, "Augmented Ring Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 598-609, June, 2001.
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Abstract—We study four augmentations of ring networks which are intended to enhance a ring's efficiency as a communication medium significantly, while increasing its structural complexity only modestly. Chordal rings add “shortcut” edges, which can be viewed as chords, to the ring. Express rings are chordal rings whose chords are routed outside the ring. Multirings append subsidiary rings to edges of a ring and, recursively, to edges of appended subrings. Hierarchical ring networks (HRN's) append subsidiary rings to nodes of a ring and, recursively, to nodes of appended subrings. We show that these four modes of augmentation are very closely related: 1) Planar chordal rings, planar express rings, and multirings are topologically equivalent families of networks with the “cutwidth” of an express ring translating into the “tree depth” of its isomorphic multiring and vice versa. 2) Every depth-d HRN is a spanning subgraph of a ${\rm depth} \hbox {-} (2d-1)$ multiring. 3) Every depth-d multiring ${\cal M}$ can be embedded into a d-dimensional mesh with dilation 3 in such a way that some node of ${\cal M}$ resides at a corner of the mesh. 4) Every depth-d HRN ${\cal H}$ can be embedded into a d-dimensional mesh with dilation 2 in such a way that some node of ${\cal H}$ resides at a corner of the mesh. In addition to demonstrating that these four augmented ring networks are grid graphs, our embedding results afford us close bounds on how much decrease in diameter is achievable for a given increase in structural complexity for the networks. Specifically, we derive upper and lower bounds on the optimal diameters of N-node depth-d multirings and HRNs that are asymptotically tight for large N and d.

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Index Terms:
Ring networks, chordal rings, express rings, multirings, hierarchical ring networks, grid graphs, graph embedding, diameter trade-offs.
Citation:
William Aiello, Sandeep N. Bhatt, Fan R.K. Chung, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, "Augmented Ring Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 598-609, June 2001, doi:10.1109/71.932713