A systematic approach to reliable multistage interconnection network design

Bibliography: p. 34-35.Army Research Office grant no. DAAG29-84-K-0005 Advanced Research Projects Agency monitored by ONR, contract N00014-81-K-0742C.-C. Jay Kuo

Architecture Analysis of NIASN

The Multi Stage Interconnection Network(MIN) is called as Fault-Tolerant if it is able to work, even in the presence of critical faults. Routing method and algorithm plays a vital role to rote the data from source to destination. In this paper the architecture of a proposed Interconnection Network named as New Irregular Augmented Shuffle Exchange Network (NIASN) has been evaluated

Fault tolerant clos network

Multistage interconnection networks, or MINs, provide paths between functional modules in multiprocessor systems. The MINs are usually segmented into several stages. Each stage connects inputs to appropriate links of the next stage so that the cumulative effect of all the stages satisfies input-output connection requirements. This thesis deals with a fault tolerant Clos network. The fault tolerance technique involves addition of extra switches per stage to compensate for any switch failure The reliability analysis of both ordinary and fault tolerant Clos networks is presented. The optimal number of extra switches required to get the best reliability results has been analyzed