Deadlock-free dynamic reconfiguration schemes for increased network dependability

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 780-794

  Pinkston, Timothy Mark ^a   Pang, Ruoming ^b   Duato, José ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deadlock free routing; Dependable communication; Dynamic reconfiguration; Hard link level flow control; Interconnection networks; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SWITCHING NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DEADLOCK FREE DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION; HARD LINK LEVEL FLOW CONTROL; ROUTING ALGORITHM; VIRTUAL CHANNELS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141724933     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2003.1225057     Document Type: Article

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