Document Type
Article
Department
Mathematics (HMC)
Publication Date
1980
Abstract
For the commonest model of rearrangeable networks with $n$ inputs and $n$ outputs, it is shown that such a network must contain at least $6n \log _6 n + O( n )$ switches. Similar lower bounds for other models are also presented.
Rights Information
© 1980 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Recommended Citation
Pippenger, Nicholas. “A New Lower Bound for the Number of Switches in Rearrangeable Networks.” SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods 1, no. 2 (June 1980): 164-167.