Fault-tolerance and interconnection networks are two areas of computer science that have captured the attention of researchers for several decades. While early computer systems were designed more to avoid faults, today's technology has made it possible as well as practical for a system to continue to function efficiently even in the presence of faults. Thus the current emphasis is on how many faults can be tolerated rather than on whether or not a single fault in the system can exist. / A typical computer environment of today consists of several computers working together to solve a given problem, rather than a single computer working in isolation. These cooperating computers require a fast, flexible, efficient and reasonably priced communication system. This research proposes such a system. / The multiple bus interconnection network described herein uses projective geometry as its basis. Even though not all processors are connected to every bus, it has a diameter of 1 which means that it allows the fastest possible communication between processors in a fault-free environment. Other attractive features of this design include a small number of connections per node, several routing paths between nodes, a high degree of uniformness and balance, and it is highly fault-tolerant. In addition, it permits distributed routing and fault-diagnosis algorithms. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-02, Section: B, page: 0931. / Major Professor: Lois W. Hawkes. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77360 |
| Contributors | Ward, Lillie D., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 136 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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