Unbiased Regional Congestion Aware Selection Function for NoCs

Michael Opoku Agyeman, Wen Zong, Xiaohang Wang, Terrence Mak

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Abstract

Adaptive routing in Network-on-Chip (NoC) selects paths for packets according to network state to reduce packet latency and balance network load. Existing adaptive routing schemes can degrade network performance due to their dependency on either inadequate or outdated network information. We present an adaptive routing scheme in which a router is provided adequate and timely congestion information of the network. A low-complexity routing selection function that considers regional congestion status is proposed. The selection function is unbiased as it considers the same amount of congestion information on both admissible directions. Proposed selection function achieves 18% lower packet latency than local congestion aware selection under realistic workloads. It also reduces regional congestion aware selection logic area and power overhead by 73% and 35% on an 8×8 mesh network.
Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Sept 2015
Event9th International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
- Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 28 Sept 201530 Sept 2015

Conference

Conference9th International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period28/09/1530/09/15

Keywords

  • Interconnect
  • Integrated circuits
  • Hardware
  • CCS for this Article

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