One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the communication and interconnection between system components. Interconnect

This book offers a detailed and comprehensive presentation of the basic principles of interconnection network design clearly illustrating them with numerous exa

One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the communication and interconnection between system components. Interconnect

Foreword -- Foreword to the First Printing -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Message Switching Layer -- Chapter 3 -- Deadlock, Livelock, a

This book outlines a set of issues that are critical to all of parallel architecture--communication latency, communication bandwidth, and coordination of cooper