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Abstract | ||
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Along with the scaling up for network-on-chips (NoC), the network traffic grows increasingly, and generally the central region is easily to become the traffic hotspots. The problem of unbalanced traffic can lead to a part of network links becoming the bottleneck of network communication, and thus hurt the network and system performance. In this paper, we propose load-balanced link distribution method, which is intended to allocating physical channels according to the traffic load on each link. To support connecting multiple physical channels between two routers, we propose a novel concept of virtual port, and design a low-cost multi-port router called virtual port router (VP-Router). Compared to the network with traditional routers, the network with VP-Routers can effectively balance the network traffic load on links. The experiments with SPLASH2 benchmarks exhibit that VP-Router performs 6.3% and 9.0% better in energy-delay-product (EDP) for 4 x 4 and 8 x 8 mesh networks respectively. As for system throughput, VP-Router improves by about 3.5% and 5.8% on average respectively. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2018 | 10.1587/elex.15.20180883 | IEICE ELECTRONICS EXPRESS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
networks-on-chip, router, load-balanced, virtual port | Traffic load,Load balancing (computing),Computer science,Computer network,Electronic engineering,Router,Scaling | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
15 | 22 | 1349-2543 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 5 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zicong Wang | 1 | 0 | 2.70 |
| Xiaowen Chen | 2 | 14 | 8.86 |
| Junyang Zhang | 3 | 0 | 1.69 |
| Yang Guo | 4 | 67 | 32.72 |