Towards a bio-inspired architecture for autonomic network-on-chip

In the past few years, research in the domain of network-on-chip has been concentrated on application-specific approaches. These approaches are design-time parameterized approaches and, however, do not consider run-time configuration of different network-on-chip parameters, which are hard to predict in early design stage. Network-on-chip architectures must be adaptive, for exemple, by rerouting at runtime traffic from congested area or by dynamically changing link´s bandwidth. The objective is to efficiently use the ressources by dynamically reconfiguring the network-on-chip according to the user and/or system requirements. In this paper, a decentralized system inspired by the immune system for autonomic network-on-chip is introduced. The immune system has a useful set of organizing principles, such as self-configuration, self-optimization, and self-healing principles, that can guide the design of autonomic network-on-chip.