Title
Fitting the router characteristics in NoCs to meet QoS requirements
Abstract
This work discusses the adaptation of routers characteristics in Networks-on-Chip to QoS-dependent application requirements, in particular with respect to the fulfillment of task deadlines. The utilization of a flow control mechanism for input buffers with increasing priority for blocked messages and dropping of old packets allows a reduction in the number of missed deadlines. The priorities of messages are dependent on their deadlines, such that the higher priorities are associated with messages that are critical type. Messages blocked by other ones with higher priority have an increment of their priorities after some cycles to avoid starvation. The lower priorities messages can have some of its packets dropped if they have exceeded their respective deadlines. The combination of these strategies with a core placement based on message bandwidth requirements and on message priorities can reduce the number of missed deadlines. This paper shows a design space that can be explored for soft real-time applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1284480.1284514
SBCCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
lower priorities message,qos-dependent application requirement,flow control mechanism,critical type,router characteristic,design space,core placement,higher priority,message priority,message bandwidth requirement,input buffer,qos requirement,real time,network on chip,embedded systems,chip,qos,embedded system,flow control,real time systems
Design space,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Quality of service,Real-time computing,Bandwidth (signal processing),Flow control (data),Router,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Edgard de Faria Corrêa151.16
Leonardo Alves de Paula e Silva230.43
Flávio Rech Wagner338059.82
Luigi Carro41393166.42