Fault-Tolerant Routing in Meshes/Tori Using Planarly Constructed Fault Blocks

  • Authors:
  • Dong Xiang;Jia-Guang Sun;Jie Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University;Tsinghua University;Florida Atlantic University

  • Venue:
  • ICPP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A few faulty nodes can make an n-dimentional mesh or torus network unsafe for fault-tolerant routing methods based on the block fault model, where the whole system (n-dimensional space) forms a fault block. A new concept, called extended local safety information in meshes or tori, is proposed to guide fault-tolerant routing, and classifies fault-free nodes inside 2-dimensional planes. Many nodes globally marked as unsafe become locally enabled inside 2-dimensional planes. A fault-tolerant routing algorithm based on extended local safety information is proposed for K-ary n-dimesional meshes/tori. Our method does not need to disable any fault-free nodes, unlike many previous methods, and this enhances the computational power of the system and improves performance of the routing algorithm greatly. All fault blocks are constructed inside 2-dimensional planes rather than in the whole system. Extensive simulation results are presented and compared with the previous methods.