Contention sensitive fault-tolerant routing algorithms for hypercubes

Abstract

We present two new fault tolerant routing algorithms for hypercubes. The first algorithm requires only local knowledge of the faults whereas the second algorithm requires global knowledge. Unlike previous fault tolerant routing algorithms, our algorithms take into consideration the dynamic conditions (link contention) of the network. We have shown that checking for dynamic conditions in fault tolerant algorithms is essential. Performance evaluation by extensive simulation of our algorithms and other fault tolerant routing algorithms show that ours are better than previous algorithms by as much as 50%; and 500%; in time and space, respectively. We also observed that global information about the location of faults does not give us additional benefit. This observation is true regardless of the consideration of the dynamic conditions in the network.<>