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Analysis of Monitoring Structures for Network-on-Chip: A Distributed Approach

Ville Rantala, Teijo Lehtonen, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila, Analysis of Monitoring Structures for Network-on-Chip: A Distributed Approach. International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems (IJERTCS) 2(1), 49-67, 2011.

Abstract:

Monitoring services are essential for advanced, reliable NoC systems. They should support traffic management, system reconfiguration and fault detection to enable optimal performance and reliability of the system. The paper presents a thorough description of NoC monitoring structures and studies earlier works. A distributed monitoring structure is proposed and compared against the structures presented in previous works. The proposed distributed network monitoring system does not require centralized control, is fully scalable and does not cause significant traffic overhead to the network. The distributed structure is in line with the scalability and flexibility of the NoC paradigm. The paper studies the monitoring structure features and analyzes traffic overhead, monitoring data diffusion, cost and performance. The advantages of distributed monitoring are found evident and the limitations of the structure are discussed.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jRaLeLiPl11a,
  title = {Analysis of Monitoring Structures for Network-on-Chip: A Distributed Approach},
  author = {Rantala, Ville and Lehtonen, Teijo and Liljeberg, Pasi and Plosila, Juha},
  journal = {International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems (IJERTCS)},
  volume = {2},
  number = {1},
  publisher = {IGI Global},
  pages = {49-67},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {Network-on-Chip, Monitoring structures, Distributed network monitoring, Traffic management, Dynamic cluster},
}

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