摘要
Inthispaperweproposeasufficientconditionforminimalroutingin3-dimensional(3-D)mesheswithfaultynodes.Itisbasedonanearlyworkoftheauthoronminimalroutingin2-dimensional(2-D)meshes.Unlikemanytraditionalmodelsthatassumeallthenodesknowglobalfaultdistributionorjustadjacentfaultinformation,ourapproachisbasedontheconceptoflimitedglobalfaultinformation.First,weproposeafaultmodelcalledfaultycubeinwhichallfaultynodesinthesystemarecontainedinasetoffaultycubes.Faultinformationisthendistributedtolimitednumberofnodeswhileitisstillsufficienttosupportminimalrouting.Thelimitedfaultinformationcollectedateachnodeisrepresentedbyavectorcalledextendedsafetylevel.Theextendedsafetylevelassociatedwithanodecanbeusedtodeterminetheexistenceofaminimalpathfromthisnodetoagivendestination.Specifically,westudytheexistenceofminimalpathsatagivensourcenode,limiteddistributionoffaultinformation,minimalrouting,anddeadlock-freeandlivelock-freerouting.Ourresultsshowthatanyminimalroutingthatispartiallyadaptivecanbeappliedinourmodelaslongasthedestinationnodemeetsacertaincondition.Wealsoproposeadynamicplanar-adaptiveroutingschemethatoffersbetterfaulttoleranceandadaptivitythantheplanar-adaptiveroutingschemein3-Dmeshes.Ourapproachisthefirstattempttoaddressadaptiveandminimalroutingin3-Dmesheswithfaultynodesusinglimitedfaultinformation.
出版日期
2003年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)