The International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (i-span 2008)
On the Longest Fault-Free Paths in Hypercubes with More Faulty Nodes
May 07-May 09
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3125-0
Faults in a network may take various forms such as hardware/software errors, node/link faults, etc. In this paper, node-faults are addressed. Let F be a faulty set of f ≤ 2n − 6 conditional node-faults in an injured n-cube Qn such that every node of Q_n still has at least two faultfree neighbors. Then we show that Qn − F contains a path of length at least 2^n − 2f − 1 (respectively, 2^n − 2f − 2) between any two nodes of odd (respectively, even) distance. Since an n-cube is a bipartite graph, such kind of the faultfree path turns out to be the longest one in the case when all faulty nodes belong to the same partite set.
Index Terms:
Interconnection network, Hypercube, Conditional fault, Linear array, Path embedding
Citation:
Tz-Liang Kueng, Tyne Liang, Jimmy J. M. Tan, Lih-Hsing Hsu, "On the Longest Fault-Free Paths in Hypercubes with More Faulty Nodes," ispan, pp.71-76, The International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (i-span 2008), 2008