Performance and reliability of the multistage bus network

Conference · Fri Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:98874

Bhuyan, L N; Askar, T ^[1]; Nanda, A K ^[2]

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1. Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
2. Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX (United States)

A Multistage Bus Network (MBN) has been proposed as a viable alternative to the existing interconnection networks. The MBN consists of multiple stages of buses connected in a manner similar to the conventional Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) and has the same bandwidth at each stage. Due to the bidirectional nature of the MBN, there exist a number of separate paths between any source and destination pair. Some paths make a U-turn at an intermediate stage switch which is a common ancestor of the source and destination. We present self routing techniques for the various paths. We also present a performance analysis of a synchronous packet switched MBN and compare the results with those of a MIN. Finally we present a reliability analysis of the MBN and show its superiority over the MIN.

• OSTI ID: 98874
• Report Number(s): CONF-940856--; CNN: Grant MIP-9002353
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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