A Study on the Multiple Fault-Tolerant Multipath Multistage Interconnection Network

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In multiprocessor systems, there are Omega network and M network among various MIN's which interconnect the processor and memory modules. Both one-path Omega network and two-path M network are composed of Log2N stages. In this paper, Augmented M network (AMN) with 2**k+1 paths and Augmented Omega network (AON) with 2**k paths are proposed. The proposed networks can be acomplished by adding K stage(s) to M network and Omega network. Using destination tag, routing algorithm for AMN and AON becomes simple and multiple faults are tolerant. By evaluating RST(request service time) performance of AMN and AON with (Log2N)+K stages, we demonstrated the fact that MMIN (AMN) with 2**k+1 paths performs better than MMIN(AON) with 2**k+1. paths.