FRoots: A fault tolerant and topology-flexible routing technique

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1136-1150

  Theiss, Ingebjørg ^a,b   Lysne, Olav ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Norway)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deadlock freedom; Fault tolerant routing; Interconnection networks; Path redundancy

Indexed keywords

CONTROL MESSAGES; DEADLOCK FREEDOM; FAULT-TOLERANT ROUTING; VIRTUAL CHANNELS;

FAULT TOLERANCE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TOPOLOGY;

NETWORK ROUTING;

EID: 33947425548     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2006.140     Document Type: Article

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