Broadcasting Multiple Messages Using Cycle-Rooted Trees

In information dissemination problem on interconnection networks, problems of broadcasting and gossiping have been widely studied. In this paper, we study the other problem, called multi-source broadcasting, defined as follows: there are some (but not all) vertices each of which has the unique item of information and needs to disseminate to every other vertex. This problem is located at an intermediate position between broadcasting and gossiping. We analyze the multi-source broadcasting problem on the cycle-rooted tree and the de Bruijn digraph as an interconnection network.