A Broadcast Algorithm for All-Port Wormhole-Routed Torus Networks

A new approach to broadcast in wormhole-routed two- and three-dimensional torus networks is proposed. The underlying network is assumed to support only deterministic, dimension-ordered unicast routing. The approach extends the graph theoretical concept of dominating nodes by accounting for the relative distance-insensitivity of the wormhole routing switching strategy. The proposed algorithm also takes advantage of an all-port communication architecture, which allows each node to simultaneously transmit messages on different outgoing channels. The resulting broadcast operation is based on a tree structure that uses multiple levels of extended dominating nodes(EDNs). Performance results are presented that confirm the advantage of this method over other approaches.