A theory of decomposition into prime factors of layered interconnection networks Original Research Article

The cross-product technique, introduced by Even and Litman (1992) , is extended into a full decomposition theory enabling a unique (up to isomorphism) and polynomial factorization of layered interconnection networks (including many well-known networks) into a product of prime factors. A polynomial algorithm is provided for checking whether a given layered interconnection network is isomorphic to a network that is uniquely decomposable into prime factors.