A performance model for Duato's fully adaptive routing algorithm in k-Ary n-cubes

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1297-1304

  Ould Khaoua, Mohamed ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive routing; Deterministic routing; Interconnection networks; Message latency; Multicomputers; Performance modeling; Virtual channels

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DUATO'S FULLY ADAPTIVE ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

EID: 0033349053     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.817384     Document Type: Article

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