A systematic design of cellular permutation arrays

A parametrized design technique is presented of cellular permutation arrays based on coset decompositions of symmetric groups. A type of permutation cell referred to as a coset generator is introduced to customize the propagation delay, fan-in, fan-out, and number of edges in the target network. To aid in the design process, a cost function is derived expressing the number of edges in terms of the number of inputs and the sizes of cells. The results provide a spectrum of networks which vary with the size of the coset generator used and range from a simple bipartite graph to several cellular permutation arrays reported in the literature.<
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