Subgraph-based Strong Menger Connectivity of Hypercube and Exchanged Hypercube

Abstract

Large scale multiprocessor systems or multicomputer systems, taking interconnection networks as underlying topologies, have been widely used in the big data era. Fault tolerance is becoming an essential attribute in multiprocessor systems as the number of processors is getting larger. A connected graph [Formula: see text] is called strong Menger (edge) connected if, for any two distinct vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], there are [Formula: see text] vertex (edge)-disjoint paths between them. Exchanged hypercube [Formula: see text], as a variant of hypercube [Formula: see text], remains lots of preferable fault tolerant properties of hypercube. In this paper, we show that [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] are strong Menger (edge) connected, respectively. Moreover, as a by-product, for dual cube [Formula: see text], one popular generalization of hypercube, [Formula: see text] is also showed to be strong Menger (edge) connected, where [Formula: see text].