An interconnection network is a structure including a set P of n > 1 processors and a set T of connections of the elements of P, satisfying certain conditions. In this work it will be introduced the concept of equitable total coloring of a graph. This concept is shown to be a natural representation for parallel processing in interconnection networks. For the most common interconnection network topologies an equitable total coloring is presented with at most D +2 colors, thus satisfying a conjecture of Vizing.
equitable total coloring; parallel processing; network architecture
