Routing and Transmitting Problems in de Bruijn Networks

  • Authors:
  • Zhen Liu;Ting-Yi Sung

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

De Bruijn graphs, both directed and undirected, have received considerable attention as architecture for interconnection networks. In this paper, we focus on undirected de Bruijn networks of radix d and dimension n, denoted by UB(d, n). We first discuss the shortest-path routing problem. We present properties of the shortest paths between any two vertices of UB(d, n) and propose two shortest-path routing algorithms, one of which has linear time complexity. Secondly, we study the transmitting problem. We establish a lower bound for the optimal transmitting time which implies in particular that the optimal transmitting problem is trivial for UB(d, n) when d驴 5. We present a transmitting scheme on undirected binary de Bruijn networks UB(2, n) with transmitting time n驴 1 for n驴 5, and conjecture that the optimal transmitting time is n驴 1 for UB(2, n), and n for UB(3, n) and UB(4, n).