Abstract
Faults in a network may take various forms such as hardware failures while a node or a link stops functioning, software errors, or even missing of transmitted packets. In this paper, we study the link-fault-tolerant capability of an n-dimensional hypercube (n-cube for short) with respect to path embedding of variable lengths in the range from the shortest to the longest. Let F be a set consisting of faulty links in a wounded n-cube Q(n), in which every node is still incident to at least two fault-free links. Then we show that Q(n) - F has a path of any odd (resp. even) length in the range from the distance to 2(n) - 1 (resp. 2(n) - 2) between two arbitrary nodes even if vertical bar F vertical bar = 2n - 5. In order to tackle this problem, we also investigate the fault diameter of an n-cube with hybrid node and link faults. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 441-454 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Parallel Computing |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 8-9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2009 |
Keywords
- Interconnection network; Hypercube; Fault tolerance; Conditional fault; Linear array; Path embedding
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Kueng, T-L., Lin, C-K., Liang, T., Tan, J-M., & Hsu, L-H. (2009). Embedding paths of variable lengths into hypercubes with conditional link-faults. Parallel Computing, 35(8-9), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2009.06.002