Distributed Fault-Tolerant Ring Embedding and Reconfiguration in Hypercubes

  • Authors:

  • Yuh-Rong Leu;Sy-Yen Kuo

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan;National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

To embed a ring in a hypercube is to find a Hamiltonian cycle through every node of the hypercube. It is obvious that no 2n-node Hamiltonian cycle exists in an n-dimensional faulty hypercube which has at least one faulty node. However, if a hypercube has faulty links only and the number of faulty links is at most n-2, at least one 2n-node Hamiltonian cycle can be found. In this paper, we propose a distributed ring-embedding algorithm that can find a Hamiltonian cycle in a fault-free or faulty n-dimensional hypercube (Q,), and the complexity is O(n) parallel steps. The algorithm is based on the recursion property of the hypercube and the free-link dimension concept. In some cases, even when the number of faulty links is larger than n-2, Hamiltonian cycles may still exist. We show that the largest possible number of faulty links that can be tolerated is 2n-1-1. The performance and the constraints of the fault-tolerant algorithm is also analyzed in detail in this paper. Furthermore, a dynamic reconfiguration algorithm for an embedded ring is proposed and discussed. Due to the distributed nature of the algorithms, they are useful for the simulation of ring-based multiprocessors on MIMD hypercube multiprocessors