Fig. 1. A single-hop passive star lightwave network. The c_i's represent the channels which can be accessed by each processor's transceivers.

Fig. 2. A multi-hop passive star lightwave network. The c_i's represent the channels which can be accessed by each processor's transceivers.

Fig. 3. Stack-ring of size 6 and order 3 (_6,3). The c_i's represent the channels which can be accessed by each processor's transceivers.

Fig. 4. A stack-torus of size 4×6 and order 3 (ζ(T, 3)). For the sake of clarity, wrap-around channels are not represented.

Fig. 5. A hypertorus _3,3×_3,2. For the sake of clarity, wrap-around channels are not represented.

Fig. 6. Packet delivery time and average number of hops versus number of nodes.

Fig. 7. Link utilization and waiting ratio versus number of nodes.

Fig. 8. Packet delivery time and waiting ratio versus channel speed.

Fig. 9. Link utilization and throughput versus channel speed.

Fig. 10. Packet delivery time and waiting/delivery time versus load.

Fig. 11. Link utilization and throughput versus load.

Table 1. Number of nodes for the studied hypertopologies

Table 2. Number of nodes for the hypercube and the 2-dimensional torus

Table 3. Hypertopologies with 120 nodes and a diameter of 3