Overview of mesh results

This paper provides an overview of lower and upper bounds for algorithms for mesh-connected processor networks. Most of our attention goes to routing and sorting problems, but other problems are mentioned as well. Results from 1977 to 1995 are covered. We provide numerous results, references and open problems. The text is completed with an index. This is a worked-out version of the author's contribution to a joint paper with Miltos D. Grammatikakis, D. Frank Hsu and Miro Kraetzl on multicomputer routing, submitted to the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing