BROADCASTING IN A THREE-STAGE POINT-TO-POINT NONBLOCKING NETWORK
F. K. Hwang, Calvin Lin · International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering · 1995
Three-stage networks have been widely studied as a point-to-point network and later, also as a broadcast network. In this paper we consider using such networks for point-to-point calls and broadcasting calls simultaneously. We note that the point-to-point nonblocking property and the broadcast rearrangeable property do not coexist due to different routing strategies. We propose a new routing strategy for broadcast calls which preserves the point-to-point nonblocking property, and keeps the broadcast calls almost rearrangeable when most calls are point-to-point.