Interconnection Networks

The performance of most digital systems today is limited by their communication or interconnection, not by their logic or memory. As designers strive to make more efficient use of scarce interconnection bandwidth, interconnection networks are emerging as a nearly universal solution to the system-level communication problems for modern digital systems.  
 
 
Interconnection networks have become pervasive in their traditional application as processor-memory and processor-processor interconnect. Point-to-point interconnection networks have replaced buses in an ever widening range of applications that include on-chip interconnect, switches and routers, and I/O systems.  
 
 
In this book, the authors present in a structured way the basic underlying concepts of most interconnection networks and provide representative solutions that have been implemented in the industry or proposed in the research literature

Contents

Foreword 
Foreword to the First Printing  
Preface 
Chapter 1 - Introduction  
Chapter 2 - Message Switching Layer  
Chapter 3 - Deadlock, Livelock, and Starvation  
Chapter 4 - Routing Algorithms  
Chapter 5 - CollectiveCommunicationSupport  
Chapter 6 - Fault-Tolerant Routing  
Chapter 7 - Network Architectures  
Chapter 8 - Messaging Layer Software  
Chapter 9 - Performance Evaluation  
Appendix A - Formal Definitions for Deadlock Avoidance  
Appendix B - Acronyms  
References 
Index