• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.7
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• pp.1842-1850
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• 1997

This paper proposes a new rearrangeable algorithm in multistage reverse shuffle/exchange network. The best known lower bound of stages for rearrangeability in symmetric network is 2logN-1 stages. However, it has never been proved for nonsymmetric networks before. Currently, the best upper bound for the rearrangeability of a shuffle/exchange network in nonsymmetric network is 3logN-3 stages. We describe the rearrangeability of reverse shuffle/exchange multistage interconnection network on every arbitrary permutation with $N{\le}16$. This rearrangeability can be established by setting one more stages in the middle stage of the network to allow the reduced network to be topological equivalent to a class of rearrangeable networks. The results in this paper enable us to establish an upper bound, 2logN stages for rearrangeable reverse shuffle/exchange network with $N{\le}16$, and leads to the possibility of this bound when $N{\le}16$.