Routing in the Manhattan Street Network.

The Manhattan Street Network is a regular, two-connected, mesh configured network designed for local and metropolitan area communication systems. It achieves higher throughputs and supports more terminals than loop and bus networks by using a smaller fraction of the networks links to get between a source and destination, and by isolating communities of interest. An implementation has been found that allows the network to operate with limited buffering without losing messages. In this paper, several distributed routing rules are investigated that take advantage of the regular structure of the Manhattan Street Network.