Quantitative modelling and comparison of communication schemes to guarantee quality-of-service in networks-on-chip

Author

Harmanci, Mehmet Derin ; Escudero, Nuria Pazos ; Leblebici, Yusuf ; Ienne, Paolo

Author_Institution

Processor Archit. & Mcroelectronic Syst. Labs., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol. Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2005

fDate

23-26 May 2005

Firstpage

1782

Abstract

We address the quantitative comparison of two basic connection schemes for on-chip communication, connection-oriented and connection-less, regarding their enforcement of a defined quality of service for the communication. For such comparison, we have built similar models for the two approaches, whose simulation highlights the drawbacks and opportunities of each solution. We demonstrate that for variable bit-rate applications, the end-to-end delay for the individual flows is less stable in the connection-oriented scheme than in the connectionless scheme.

Keywords

DiffServ networks; multiprocessor interconnection networks; quality of service; system-on-chip; telecommunication network routing; variable rate codes; DiffServ-NoC; NoC communication schemes; QoS; SoC; connection-oriented communication; connectionless communication; individual flow end-to-end delay; networks-on-chip; packet routing; quality-of-service guarantees; variable bit-rate applications; Analytical models; Delay; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Microelectronics; Network-on-a-chip; Quality of service; System-on-a-chip; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISCAS 2005. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8834-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1464954

Filename

1464954