Message routing in HARTS with faulty components

Abstract

The authors develop a routing scheme in two steps for a wrapped hexagonal mesh, called HARTS (hexagonal architecture for real-time systems), which ensures the delivery of every message as long as there is a path between its source and destination. The scheme can also detect the nonexistence of a path between a pair of nodes in a finite amount of time. Moreover, the scheme requires each node in HARTS to know only the state (faulty or not) of each of its own links. The performance of the simple routing scheme is simulated for three- and five-dimensional H-meshes while the physical distribution of faulty components is varied. It is shown that a shortest path between the source and the destination of each message is taken with a high probability, and a path, if one exists, is usually found very quickly.<>