Worst-case traffic for oblivious routing functions

  • Authors:
  • Brian Towles;William J. Dally

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University;Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm to find a worst-case traffic pattern for any oblivious routing algorithm on an arbitrary interconnection network topology. The linearity of channel loading offered by oblivious routing algorithms enables the problem to be mapped to a bipartite maximum-weight matching, which can be solved in polynomial time for most practical routing functions. Finding exact worst-case performance was previously intractable, and we demonstrate an example case where traditional characterization techniques overestimate the throughput of a particular routing algorithm by 47%.