ON A UNIFIED NEIGHBOURHOOD BROADCASTING SCHEME FOR INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS

Abstract

The neighbourhood broadcasting problem in an interconnection network is defined as sending a fixed sized message from the source node to all its neighbours in a single-port model. Previously, this problem has been studied for several interconnection networks including the hypercube and the star. The objective of such works has been to minimize the total number of steps required for the neighbourhood broadcasting algorithms. Here, we first use a general neighbourhood broadcasting scheme to develop a neighbourhood broadcasting algorithm for the star interconnection network that is asymptotically optimal, conceptually simple, and easy to implement since routing for all nodes involved is uniform. It uses the cycle structures of the star graph as well as the standard technique of recursive doubling. We then show that the scheme for the star network is general enough to be applied to a broader family of interconnection networks such as the pancake interconnection network for which no previous neighbourhood broadcasting algorithm is known, resulting in asymptotically optimal algorithms. Finally, we use this scheme to develop neighbourhood broadcasting algorithms for multiple messages for several interconnection networks.