Multistage interconnection networks (MINs) are a class of high-speed computer networks usually composed of processing elements (PEs) on one end of the network and memory elements (MEs) on the other end, connected together by switching elements (SEs). A computer network is a group of interconnected Computers. Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics A The switching elements themselves are usually connected to each other in phases, hence the name.
Such networks include omega networks, delta networks and many other types. MINs are typically used in high-performance or parallel computing as a low-latency interconnection (as opposed to traditional packet switching networks), though they could be implemented on top of a packet switching network. Packet switching is a network communications method that splits data traffic (digital representations of text sound or video data into chunks called packets, that are then Though the network is typically used for routing purposes, it could also be used as a co-processor to the actual processors for such uses as sorting; cyclic shifting, as in a perfect shuffle network; and bitonic sorting. Sorting is any process of arranging items in some sequence and/or in different sets and accordingly it has two common yet distinct meanings ordering: arranging
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- Aljundi, Dekeyser, Kechadi, Scherson, "A study of an evaluation methodology for unbuffered multistage interconnection networks" (2003), Proceedings of 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
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