A Novel Routing Algorithm for k-Ary n-Cube Interconnection Networks

This paper proposes a novel routing algorithm, called the direction-first e-cube, for routing on k-ary n-cube interconnection networks. It is an adaptive, partially minimal algorithm based on the wormhole-routing strategy and effectively extends the basic e-cube technique. It has been proved by a set of theorems that the proposed algorithm is deadlock-, livelock- and starvation-free. In the absence of faults, the algorithm is fully minimal. Even in the presence of faults and network congestion, the number of extra hops required to route a message is minimal. The algorithm is also simple to implement, since it utilizes a small header node of 2 log2 n+n log2k+1 bits. Simulation results are given to validate the proposed algorithm.