Conditional fault diameter of crossed cubes

The conditional connectivity and the conditional fault diameter of a crossed cube are studied in this work. The conditional connectivity is the connectivity of an interconnection network with conditional faults, where each node has at least one fault-free neighbor. Based on this requirement, the conditional connectivity of a crossed Cube is shown to be 2n - 2. Extending this result, the conditional fault diameter of a crossed cube is also shown to be D(CQ(n)) + 3 as a set of 2n - 3 node failures. This indicates that the conditional fault diameter of a crossed Cube is increased by three compared to the fault-free diameter of a crossed cube. The conditional fault diameter of a crossed cube is approximately half that of the hypercube. In this respect, the crossed cube is superior to the hypercube. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.