JSE_V4_N3_RP2 Mostafa Abd-El-Barr Journal on Software Engineering 2230 – 7168 4 3 7 17 Mesh Multi-Computer Networks, Fault Tolerance, Fault-Tolerant Routing, Broadcasting in Mesh Networks, Communication in Faulty Mesh Networks, Reliability Analysis of Mesh Networks Multi-Computer Systems (MCSs) are efficient in solving computing-intensive problems. A MCS consists of a number of Processing Elements (PEs) and an Interconnection Network (IN). A fault in any PE and/or the IN can lead to losses in sensitive data and/or the overall throughput. In this paper, the author provide a review of the fault tolerance and reliability assessing techniques of mesh MCSs. A number of fault-tolerant routing techniques are analyzed including the dimension ordering, the turn model, and the block-fault model [52]. In reliability analysis, he considers the sub-mesh reliability exact and approximate models and the task-based reliability computation [8]. It is expected that some of the techniques and algorithms covered in this paper can have applications in the domain of wireless mesh networks. January - March 2010 Copyright © 2010 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=1112