Bus-oriented interconnection topologies for single-hop communication among multi-transceiver stations

The author presents the topological design space of single-hop interconnection among multitransceiver stations (no intermediate switches and no forwarding). They explore a class of such interconnections for which the throughput with a uniform traffic pattern is proportional to the square of the number of transceivers per station. These interconnections consist of a collection of buses, each of which interconnects a proper subset of the stations, and are referred to as selective-broadcast interconnections. They are compared with a multiple-broadcast-bus interconnection in terms of station hardware, throughput, delay, and power budget.<>