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Paper   IPM / Computer Science / 10906
School of Computer Science
  Title:   On Quantifying Fault Patterns of the Mesh Interconnect Networks
  Author(s): 
1.  F. Safaei
2.  M. Fathy
3.  A. Khonsari
4.  M. Ould-Khaoua
5.  H. Shafiei
6.  S. Khosravipour
  Status:   In Proceedings
  Proceeding: AINA
  Year:  2007
  Pages:   956 - 961
  Publisher(s):   IEEE Computer Society
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
One of the key issues in the design of Multiprocessors System-on-Chip (MP-SoCs), multicomputers, and peerto- peer networks is the development of an efficient communication network to provide high throughput and low latency and its ability to survive beyond the failure of individual components. Generally, the faulty components may be coalesced into fault regions, which are classified into convex and concave shapes. In this paper, we propose a mathematical solution for counting the number of common fault patterns in a 2-D mesh interconnect network including both convex ( - -shape, - - -shape, ý-shape) and concave (L-shape, Ushape, T-shape, +-shape, H-shape) regions. The results presented in this paper which have been validated through simulation experiments can play a key role when studying, particularly, the performance analysis of fault-tolerant routing algorithms and measure of a network fault-tolerance expressed as the probability of a disconnection.

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