Locally Subcube-Connected Hypercube Networks: Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Results

  • Authors:
  • Jianer Chen;Guojun Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX;Central-South Univ., People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study hypercube networks with a very large number of faulty nodes. A simple and natural condition, the local subcube-connectivity, is identified under which hypercube networks with a very large number of faulty nodes still remain connected. The condition of local subcube-connectivity can be detected and maintained in a distributed manner based on localized management. Efficient routing algorithms on locally subcube-connected hypercube networks are developed. Our algorithms are distributed and local-information-based in the sense that each node in the network knows only its neighbors' status and no global information of the network is required by the algorithms. For a locally subcube-connected hypercube network that may contain up to 37.5 percent faulty nodes, our algorithms run in linear time and, for any two given nonfaulty nodes, find a routing path of length bounded by four times the Hamming distance between the two nodes. Theoretical analysis and experimental results are presented which show that, under a variety of probability distributions of node failures, hypercube networks are locally subcube-connected with a very high probability and our routing algorithms run in linear time and construct routing paths of nearly optimal length.