Enhanced-Star: a new topology based on the star graph

  • Authors:
  • Hamid Reza Tajozzakerin;Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, IPM, Tehran, Iran;School of Computer Science, IPM, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • ISPA'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The star graph, though an attractive alternative to the hypercube, has a poor network bandwidth due to a lower number of channels compared to that in an equivalent hypercube. In order to alleviate this drawback, this paper presents a generalization of the star graph topology with a richer connectivity, called theenhanced-star. We also examine some topological properties of the proposed network. Some useful functions such as multi-node broadcasting, scattering, total exchange, and group communication, in the enhanced-star are also addressed. We show these operations can be completed faster in the enhanced-star (compared to the star).