A general analytical model of adaptive wormhole routing in k-ary n-cubes

Khonsari, A. and Ould-Khaoua, M. and Ferguson, J.D. (2003) A general analytical model of adaptive wormhole routing in k-ary n-cubes. In: International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2003-07-20 - 2003-07-24.

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Abstract

Several analytical models of fully adaptive routing have recently been proposed for k-ary n-cubes and hypercube networks under the uniform traffic pattern. Although,hypercube is a special case of k-ary n-cubes topology, the modeling approach for hypercube is more accurate than karyn-cubes due to its simpler structure. This paper proposes a general analytical model to predict message latency in wormhole-routed k-ary n-cubes with fully adaptive routing that uses a similar modeling approach to hypercube. The analysis focuses Duato's fully adaptive routing algorithm [12], which is widely accepted as the most general algorithm for achieving adaptivity in wormhole-routed networks while allowing for an efficient router implementation. The proposed model is general enough that it can be used for hypercube and other fully adaptive routing algorithms.