All-to-all broadcast problem of some classes of graphs under the half duplex all-port model

Abstract

All-to-all communication occurs in many important applications in parallel processing. In this paper, we study the all-to-all broadcast number (the shortest time needed to complete the all-to-all broadcast) of graphs under the assumption that: each vertex can use all of its links at the same time, and each communication link is half duplex and can carry only one message at a unit of time. We give upper and lower bounds for the all-to-all broadcast number of graphs and give formulas for the all-to-all broadcast number of trees, complete bipartite graphs and double loop networks under this model. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.