Immucube: Scalable fault-tolerant routing for k-ary n-cube networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 776-788

  Puente, Valentin ^a   Gregorio, José Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant routing; Interconnection networks; K ary n cubes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS;

FAULT TOLERANT ROUTING; INTERMITTENT FAULTS; K-ARY N-CUBES;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248680183     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2007.1047     Document Type: Article

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