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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp. 531-542


Hamiltonicity of the Pyramid Network with or without Fault


Ruei-Yu Wu1 and Dyi-Rong Duh2
1Department of Management Information Systems 
Hwa Hsia Institute of Technology 
Taipei Hsien, 235 Taiwan 
2Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
National Chi Nan University 
Nantou Hsien, 545 Taiwan


    Sarbazi-Azad, Ould-Khaoua, and Mackenzie proved in 2001 that there exists a Hamiltonian cycle in a pyramid network and they also constructed a Hamiltonian path between apex and each of 4 frontiers of a pyramid network. The fault tolerance is a crucial matter for parallel computing, especially in a large network. This work improves Sarbazi-Azad et al.’s result and considers other relative problems in pyramid networks such as the fault tolerant Hamiltonian problem and the Hamiltonian-connected problem. The problem of finding Hamiltonian cycles in a pyramid network with one faulty node (link) is investigated. Additionally, the Hamiltonian-connectedness of a pyramid network can be shown by constructing a Hamiltonian path between any two distinct nodes in it.


Keywords: pyramid networks, Hamiltonian cycle, Hamiltonian-connectedness, fault tolerance, interconnection networks

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