EVALUATION OF COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES IN LARGE-SCALE MULTICOMPUTER NETWORKS (MULTICOMPUTER NETWORKS).

To address this problem, we develop a means of describing and modeling multicomputer systems that facilitate the comparison of the performability of a wide range of architectures. A network architecture taxonomy is used to increase the understanding of the relationships between various networks. Guided by this, a network description system is developed which focuses on the logical rather than the physical structure of network architectures. A model construction technique for multicomputer systems based