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Paired 2-disjoint path covers of burnt pancake graphs with faulty elements
The burnt pancake graph is the Cayley graph of the hyperoctahedral
group using prefix reversals as generators. Let and be any
two pairs of distinct vertices of for . We show that there are
and paths whose vertices partition the vertex set of even if
has up to faulty elements. On the other hand, for every
there is a set of faulty edges or faulty vertices for which such a
fault-free disjoint path cover does not exist.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
Quantifying fault recovery in multiprocessor systems
Various aspects of reliable computing are formalized and quantified with emphasis on efficient fault recovery. The mathematical model which proves to be most appropriate is provided by the theory of graphs. New measures for fault recovery are developed and the value of elements of the fault recovery vector are observed to depend not only on the computation graph H and the architecture graph G, but also on the specific location of a fault. In the examples, a hypercube is chosen as a representative of parallel computer architecture, and a pipeline as a typical configuration for program execution. Dependability qualities of such a system is defined with or without a fault. These qualities are determined by the resiliency triple defined by three parameters: multiplicity, robustness, and configurability. Parameters for measuring the recovery effectiveness are also introduced in terms of distance, time, and the number of new, used, and moved nodes and edges
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