A unified formulation of Kautz network and generalized hypercube

Hypercube and Kautz network each possess certain desirable properties. However, some of the attractive features of one network are not found in the other. A novel class of network topologies proposed in this paper has the generalized hypercube and the Kautz network as its two extremes. The proposed network inherits the topological properties of both the Kautz network and the generalized hypercube to a varying degree. This allows us to trade-off cost and performance effectively and construct networks which are most suitable for a particular purpose. In the present paper, we investigate the connectivity, wide-diameter, fault-tolerance, Hamiltonicity.