Everything about Parallel communication

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Parallel communicationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Parallel Differential Chaotic Shift Keying With Code Index Modulation for Wireless CommunicationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Job scheduling strategies for parallel processingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A Scheme for Fast Parallel CommunicationCited 469 times
5. Go sideways: Serial communicationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Bus (computing)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A Scheme for Fast Parallel Communication

  L. G. Valiant · 1982 · SIAM Journal on Computing · 469 citations

• Data communication in parallel architectures

  Youcef Saad, Martin H Schultz · 1989 · Parallel Computing · 114 citations

• Efficient Schemes for Parallel Communication

  Eli Upfal · 1984 · Journal of the ACM · 91 citations

• Communication Steps for Parallel Query Processing

  Paul Beame, Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu · 2017 · Journal of the ACM · 82 citations

• FlipTracer: Practical Parallel Decoding for Backscatter Communication

  Meng Jin, Yuan He, Xin Meng · 2019 · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking · 57 citations

• Communication-Efficient Parallel Sorting

  Michael T. Goodrich · 1999 · SIAM Journal on Computing · 51 citations

• Communication costs for parallel volume-rendering algorithms

  U. Neumann · 1994 · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications · 44 citations

• Routing techniques for massively parallel communication

  S.A. Felperin, L. Gravano, G.D. Pifarre · 1991 · Proceedings of the IEEE · 37 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Parallel Differential Chaotic Shift Keying With Code Index Modulation for Wireless Communication

  Haoyu Chen, Pingping Chen, Yi Fang · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 29 citations

• Coherent terahertz wireless communication using dual-parallel MZM-based silicon photonic integrated circuits

  Wonkyoung Lee, Seungjun Han, Sang-Rok Moon · 2022 · Optics Express · 24 citations

• A Multidimensional Communication Scheduling Method for Hybrid Parallel DNN Training

  Shengwei Li, Kai Lu, Zhiquan Lai · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 17 citations

• Distributed communication interference resource scheduling using the master-slave parallel scheduling genetic algorithm

  Zhenhua Wei, Wenpeng Wu, Jianwei Zhan · 2025 · Scientific Reports · 10 citations

• Advanced multi-feedback stochastic parallel gradient descent wavefront correction in free-space optical communication

  Zhaokun Li, Tao Shang, Xiongchao Liu · 2023 · Optics Communications · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Job scheduling strategies for parallel processingJSSPP'99 (1999 San Juan, P.R.), IPPS/SPDP '98 Workshop (1998 Orlando, Fla.) · 1995
• Parallel Processing and Applied MathematicsRoman Wyrzykowski · 2003
• Parallel Computing TechnologiesVictor Malyshkin · 2003
• PerceptronsMarvin Minsky, Seymour Papert · 1969
• Parallel system interconnections and communicationsMiltos D. Grammatikakis, D. Frank Hsu · 2000
• Iterative Receiver DesignHenk Wymeersch · 2007
• Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel ProcessingXiang-he Sun, Wenyu Qu · 2000
• Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel ProcessingJoanna Kolodziej, Benjamino Di Martino · 2013

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