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Pseudo-cycle-based multicast routing in wormhole-routed networks

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This paper addresses the problem of fault-tolerant multicast routing in wormholerouted multicomputers. A new pseudo-cycle-based routing method is presented for constructing deadlock-free multicast routing algorithms. With at most two virtual channels this technique can be applied to any connected networks with arbitrary topologies. Simulation results show that this technique results in negligible performance degradation even in the presence of a large number of faulty nodes.

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  1. Wireless and Embedded Technology Laboratory, Legend Corporate Research and Development, 100085, Beijing, P.R. China

    Song JianPing & Hou ZiFeng

  2. Bejing Mobile Communication Company Ltd., No.58 Dongzhong Street Dongcheng District, 100027, Beijing, P.R. China

    Xu Ming

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Song JianPing received the B.S. degree in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2002. His current research interests include interconnection networks and wireless communication.

Hou ZiFeng is a professor and the chief researcher of the Legend Corporate Research & Development, Beijing. His current research interests include high-performance system architecture and wireless communication.

Xu Ming received the B.S. degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1999 and the M.S. degree in computer science from Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2002. His current research interest is wireless communication.

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Song, J., Hou, Z. & Xu, M. Pseudo-cycle-based multicast routing in wormhole-routed networks. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 18, 717–724 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02945459

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