%0 Journal Article
%T A Power Efficient, Oblivious, Path-Diverse, Minimal Routing for Mesh-based Networks-on-Chip
%A El Sayed M. Saad
%A Sameh A. Salem
%A Medhat H. Awadalla
%A Ahmed M. Mostafa
%J International Journal of Computer Science Issues
%D 2012
%I IJCSI Press
%X One of the most trade-off aspects in the design of NoCs is the improvement of the network performance, in terms of throughput and latency, while minimizing power consumption. 2D-mesh has become the preferred topology, since it offers low and constant link delay. This paper proposes a Power efficient, Oblivious, Path-diverse, Minimal routing (POPM) for mesh-based Networks-on-Chip. In order to improve the performance of the network, POPM makes routing decisions locally at each hop rather than establishing a fixed and deterministic path between the source and destination nodes. POPM routes each packet separately through a path selected from among all minimal paths. Detailed simulations on a set of synthetic traffic patterns as well as a real application traffic pattern show that POPM competes favorably to existing routing algorithms, including dimension-ordered (DOR) routing, North-Last turn model, and PROM routing.
%K Network-on-Chip
%K Minimal Routing
%K Oblivious routing
%K Performance
%K Power.
%K IJCSI
%U http://www.ijcsi.org/papers/IJCSI-9-2-2-339-347.pdf