  Component reliability and performance pose a great challenge for
interconnection networks. Future technology scaling such as transistor
integration capacity in VLSI design will result in higher device degradation
and manufacture variability. As a consequence, changes in the network arise,
often rendering irregular topologies. This paper proposes a topology-agnostic
distributed segment-based algorithm able to handle switch discovery in any
topology while guaranteeing connectivity among switches. The proposal, known as
Transparent Distributed Segment-Based Routing (TDSR), has been applied to
meshes with defective link configurations.
