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The load balancing problem in OTIS-Hypercube interconnection networks

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An interconnection network architecture that promises to be an interesting option for future-generation parallel processing systems is the OTIS (Optical Transpose Interconnection System) optoelectronic architecture. Therefore, all performance improvement aspects of such a promising architecture need to be investigated; one of which is load balancing technique. This paper focuses on devising an efficient algorithm for load balancing on the promising OTIS-Hypercube interconnection networks. The proposed algorithm is called Clusters Dimension Exchange Method (CDEM). The analytical model and the experimental evaluation proved the excellence of OTIS-Hypercube compared to Hypercube in terms of various parameters, including execution time, load balancing accuracy, number of communication steps, and speed.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, The University of Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan

    Basel A. Mahafzah

  2. Department of Computer Science, School of Computer and Information Technology, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, 22110, Jordan

    Bashira A. Jaradat

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Mahafzah, B.A., Jaradat, B.A. The load balancing problem in OTIS-Hypercube interconnection networks. J Supercomput 46, 276–297 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-008-0191-3

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