Efficient Routing Schemes for Multiple Broadcasts in Hypercubes

  • Authors:
  • G. D. Stamoulis;J. N. Tsitsiklis

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

The authors analyze the problem in which each node of the binary hypercubeindependently generates packets according to a Poisson process with rate lambda ; eachof the packets is to be broadcast to all other nodes. Assuming unit packet length and noother communications taking place, it is observed that the system can be stable insteady-state only if the load factor rho identical to lambda (2/sup d/-1)/d satisfies rho1 where d is the dimensionality (diameter) of the hypercube. Moreover, the authorsestablish some lower bounds for the steady-state average delay D per packet and deviseand analyze two distributed routing schemes that are efficient in the sense that stabilityis maintained for all rho rho * where rho * does not depend on the dimensionality d ofthe network, while the average delay D per packet satisfies Dor=Kd(1+ rho ) for smallvalues of rho (with constant K). The performance evaluation is rigorous for one scheme,while for the other the authors resort to approximations and simulations.