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8 Sorting on butterflies

 

In this section we present a randomized algorithm for sorting tex2html_wrap_inline3809 packets on an tex2html_wrap_inline3811 -node butterfly network in tex2html_wrap_inline3813 steps using constant-size queues. The algorithm is based on the Flashsort algorithm of Reif and Valiant [32]. The main difference is that we use the algorithm for scheduling packets on leveled networks in place of their scheduling algorithm, which requires queues of size tex2html_wrap_inline3815 . A similar approach has been suggested previously by Pippenger [26].





Bruce Maggs
Mon Jul 22 22:57:44 EDT 1996