A Comment on “A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Deadlock-Free Adaptive Routing in Wormhole Networks” Oct. 2011 (vol. 22 no. 10) pp. 1775-1776
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPDS.2011.16
The purpose of this comment is to show that Duato's condition for deadlock freedom is only sufficient and not necessary. We propose a fix to keep the condition necessary. The issue is subtle but essential: in a wormhole network worms necessarily do not intersect.
Citation:
Freek Verbeek, Julien Schmaltz, "A Comment on “A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Deadlock-Free Adaptive Routing in Wormhole Networks”," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1775-1776, Oct. 2011, doi:10.1109/TPDS.2011.16 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||