Connection-oriented Multicasting in Wormhole-switched Networks on Chip

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Connection-oriented Multicasting in Wormhole-switched Networks on Chip (2006)

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by Zhonghai Lu Bei

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@MISC{Bei06connection-orientedmulticasting,
    author = {Zhonghai Lu Bei},
    title = {Connection-oriented Multicasting in Wormhole-switched Networks on Chip},
    year = {2006}
}

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Abstract

Network-on-Chip (NoC) proposes networks to replace buses as a scalable global communication interconnect for future SoC designs. However, a bus is very efficient in broadcasting. As the system size scales up to explore the chip capacity, broadcasting in NoCs must be efficiently supported. This paper presents a novel multicast scheme in wormhole-switched NoCs. By this scheme, a multicast procedure consists of establishment, communication and release phase. A multicast group can request to reserve virtual channels during establishment and has priority on arbitration of link bandwidth. This multicasting method has been effectively implemented in a mesh network with deadlock freedom. Our experiments show that the multicast technique improves throughput, and does not exhibit significant impact on unicast performance in a network with mixed unicast and multicast traffic if the network is not saturated.

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connection-oriented multicasting wormhole-switched network novel multicast scheme mixed unicast system size link bandwidth chip capacity wormhole-switched noc future soc design multicast traffic significant impact multicast group mesh network unicast performance scalable global communication interconnect virtual channel release phase deadlock freedom multicast procedure multicast technique

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