Design and analysis of multicast communication in multidimensional mesh networks

Ahmed Al-Dubai*, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Imed Romdhani

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of multicast communication in scalable interconnection networks, using path-based scheme. Most existing multicast algorithms either assume a fixed network size, low dimensional networks or only consider the latency at the network level. As a consequence, most of these algorithms implement multicast in a sequential manner and can not scale well with the network dimensions or the number of nodes involved. Furthermore, most of these algorithms handle multicast communication with low throughput. In this paper, we propose a multicast algorithm for multidimensional interconnection networks, which is built upon our Qualified Groups QG multicast scheme for ensuring efficient communication irrespective of the network sizes/dimensions or the number of the destination nodes. Unlike the existing works, this study considers the scalability and latency at both the network and node levels so as to achieve a high degree of parallelism. Our results show that the proposed algorithm considerably improves the multicast message delivery ratio, throughput and scalability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationParallel and Distributed Processing and Applications - 5th International Symposium, ISPA 2007, Proceedingsq
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages868-882
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)3540747419, 9783540747413
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007 - Niagara Falls, Canada
Duration: Aug 29 2007Aug 31 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4742 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityNiagara Falls
Period8/29/078/31/07

Keywords

  • Mesh networks
  • Path-based multicast
  • Routing algorithms

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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