Title :
Performance evaluation of unicast and multicast communication in three-dimensional mesh architectures
Author :
Ebrahimi, Masoumeh ; Daneshtalab, Masoud ; Liljeberg, Pasi ; Tenhunen, Hannu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Univ. of Turku, Turku, Finland
Abstract :
As the multicast communication is utilized commonly in various parallel applications, the performance can be significantly improved by supporting multicast operations at the hardware level. In this paper, we define several factors of efficiency for unicast/multicast communication such as average of unicast latency, average of maximum multicast latency and level of parallelism in 3D mesh NoCs. Then, we propose analytical models for measuring the efficiency factors of a method in unicast/multicast communication called vertical block partitioning.
Keywords :
multicast communication; network-on-chip; performance evaluation; routing protocols; 3D mesh NoC; maximum multicast latency; multicast communication; parallel application; performance evaluation; three-dimensional mesh architecture; unicast communication; unicast latency; vertical block partitioning; Mesh networks; Multicast communication; Parallel processing; Routing; System recovery; Three dimensional displays; Unicast;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Architecture and Digital Systems (CADS), 2010 15th CSI International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tehran
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6267-4
DOI :
10.1109/CADS.2010.5623591
