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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

A Fault-Tolerant Deadlock-Free Routing Algorithm in a Meshed Network

Deogkyoo LEE, Daekeun MOON, Ilgu YUN, Hagbae KIM

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Since components faults occurring at arbitrary places (primarily on the links) affect seriously network performance and reliability, the multicomputers operating in harsh environments should be designed to guarantee normal network-missions in presence of those faults. One solution to the end is a fault-tolerant routing scheme, which enables messages to safely reach their destinations avoiding failed links when transmission of messages is blocked by certain faults. In the paper, we develop a fault-tolerant routing algorithm with deadlock freedom in an n-dimensional meshed network, and validate its efficiency and effectiveness through proper simulations. The aspects of fault-tolerance is adopted by appending partial-adaptiveness and detouring to the e-cube algorithm, while using a wormhole routing for the backbone routing method. The phenomenon of deadlock incurred due to its adaptiveness is eliminated by classifying a physical channel into a couple of virtual channels.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E85-D No.4 pp.722-726
Publication Date
2002/04/01
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Category
Fault Tolerance

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