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Enhancing Performance of NoC-Based Architectures using Heuristic Virtual-Channel Sharing Approach

Khalid Latif, Amir-mohammad Rahmani, Vaddina Kameswar rao, Tiberiu Seceleanu, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen, Enhancing Performance of NoC-Based Architectures using Heuristic Virtual-Channel Sharing Approach. In: Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (Ed.), Real-Time, Embedded and Physical Systems track of IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC’11), 442-447, IEEE Computer Society, 2011.

Abstract:

This paper presents a novel virtual-channel (VC) sharing technique for NoC architecture. The proposed architecture improves the utilization of resources to enhance the performance with minimal overheads. A heuristic approach towards the proper VC sharing strategy is proposed, which is performed by an adaptive algorithm that configures the VC sharing based on link load parameters. Architectural design to realize the adaptive VC sharing in generic router is elaborated. The technique can be applied to any NoC architecture, including 3-D NoCs. Extensive quantitative experiments with synthetic and real benchmarks, including an integrated video conference application, demonstrate considerable improvement in area and power efficiency compared to existing VC-based 2D/3D NoC architectures.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{iLaRaKaSeLiTe11a,
  title = {Enhancing Performance of NoC-Based Architectures using Heuristic Virtual-Channel Sharing Approach},
  booktitle = {Real-Time, Embedded and Physical Systems track of IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC’11)},
  author = {Latif, Khalid and Rahmani, Amir-mohammad and Kameswar rao, Vaddina and Seceleanu, Tiberiu and Liljeberg, Pasi and Tenhunen, Hannu},
  editor = {Ahamed, Sheikh Iqbal},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  pages = {442-447},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {Virtual Channel Sharing, Networks-on-Chip (NoC), Resource Utilization},
}

Belongs to TUCS Research Unit(s): Communication Systems (ComSys)

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