On a class of (2n-1)-stage rearrangeable interconnection networks

A class of (2n-1)-stage rearrangeable multistage interconnection networks (MINs) that includes all the previously proposed 2n-1 stage MINs as special cases or subsets is proposed. Both permutation routing and generalized distributed tag routing algorithms of this class of MINs are proposed. It is shown that previously proposed routing algorithms for some specific rearrangeable networks are just special cases of the general routing algorithm.<<ETX>>