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Improved extra group network: a new fault-tolerant multistage interconnection network

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Supersystems are shown to provide enough computational power to solve complex problems on a real-time basis. In all these systems, the computational parallelism is obtained from multiple processors. Multistage interconnection networks (MINs) play a vital role on the performance of these multiprocessor systems. This paper introduces a new fault-tolerant MIN named as improved extra group network (IEGN). IEGN is designed by existing extra group (EGN) network, which is a regular multipath network with limited fault tolerance. IEGN provides four times more paths between any source–destination pairs compared with EGN. The performance of IEGN has been evaluated in terms of permutation capability, fault tolerance, reliability, path length, and cost. It has also been proved that the IEGN can achieve better results in terms of fault tolerance, reliability, path length and cost-effectiveness, in comparison to known networks, namely, EGN, augmented baseline network, augmented shuffle-exchange network, fault-tolerant double tree, Benes network, and Replicated MIN.

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Abbreviations

IN:

Interconnection network

MIN:

Multistage interconnection network

IEGN:

Improved extra group network

EGN:

Extra group network

ABN:

Augmented baseline network

ASEN:

Augmented shuffle-exchange network

MABN:

Modified augmented baseline network

FDOT:

Fault-tolerant double tree network

PCT:

Perfect connection techniques

BP:

Basic path

MP:

Main path

AP:

Auxiliary path

SE:

Switching element

NOBP:

Number of basic path

NOAP:

Number of auxiliary path

LOMP:

Length of main path

LOAP:

Length of auxiliary path

LOBP:

Length of basic path

PLE:

Path length-effectiveness

SC:

Switching component

MSFT:

Maximum number of switching components failures tolerated

UB:

Upper bound

LB:

Lower bound

MUX:

Multiplexer

DMUX:

Demultiplexer

CE:

Cost-effectiveness

RBD:

Reliability block diagram

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    Mohsen Jahanshahi

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Bistouni, F., Jahanshahi, M. Improved extra group network: a new fault-tolerant multistage interconnection network. J Supercomput 69, 161–199 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-014-1132-y

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