Percolation theory and computing with faulty arrays of processors

  • Authors:
  • Thomas R. Mathies

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SODA '92 Proceedings of the third annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 1992

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Let H be an n x n mesh-connected array of processors. Each processor is assumed to fail (independently) with probability p. Raghavan [5] gave an algorithm that with high probability routes packets in this mesh with O(log n) dilation and O(log2n) load so long as p ≤ 0.29. KKLMRRTT [3] improve the load to O(1) for “small” p while keeping the O(log n) bound for dilation and showing an o(1) bound for congestion. In this paper we show these bounds hold for p as high as *** 0.4. We also consider the problem where links rather than processors fail and shows these same bounds hold for q