Immunet: Dependable routing for interconnection networks with arbitrary topology

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1676-1689

  Puente, Valentin ^a   Gregorio, José Angel ^a   Vallejo, Fernando ^a   Beivide, Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Interconnection networks; Packet deadlock; Parallel systems; Routing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; ROUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY;

ARBITRARY TOPOLOGIES; DYNAMIC NETWORKS; GRACEFUL PERFORMANCE DEGRADATIONS; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; LOCAL INFORMATIONS; LOW COSTS; MULTIPLE FAILURES; NETWORK RECONFIGURATIONS; PACKET DEADLOCK; PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL SYSTEMS; ROUTER NODES; ROUTING; SCALABLE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM LEVELS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 57049094965     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2008.95     Document Type: Article

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