Research PapersNo Access

Design of Low-Power WiNoC with Congestion-Aware Wireless Node

Yiming Ouyang

School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, 193 Tunxi Road, Hefei, Anhui 230009, P. R. China

E-mail Address: oyymbox@163.com

Search for more papers by this author

Zhe Li

School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, 193 Tunxi Road, Hefei, Anhui 230009, P. R. China

E-mail Address: leezhe723@163.com

Corresponding author.

Search for more papers by this author

Kun Xing

School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, 193 Tunxi Road, Hefei, Anhui 230009, P. R. China

Search for more papers by this author

Zhengfeng Huang

School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, 193 Tunxi Road, Hefei, Anhui 230009, P. R. China

Search for more papers by this author

Huaguo Liang

School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, 193 Tunxi Road, Hefei, Anhui 230009, P. R. China

Search for more papers by this author

, and

Jianhua Li

School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, 193 Tunxi Road, Hefei, Anhui 230009, P. R. China

Search for more papers by this author

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126618501487Cited by:7 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

As the key component of wireless network-on-chip (WiNoC), wireless router is required to handle a large number of data packets which could cause network congestion. The congestion not only reduces the network performance, but also results in additional power consumption. In this paper, a low-power WiNoC with congestion-aware wireless node is proposed. Firstly, flit counter unit and address resolution unit are added in wireless interface (WI), which can sense the congestion information and destination address information of each wireless node dynamically. Secondly, through the proposed congestion judgment algorithm, the congestion judgment unit in global network can judge the priority of each wireless node pair and set the highest-priority wireless node pair to use the channel resources preferentially. The mechanism can effectively alleviate the congestion of wireless nodes and ensure the stability of system performance. In addition, a sleep mechanism is utilized to switch off WI which fails in the wireless channel competition. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can effectively improve the performance in terms of packets’ transmission latency and network throughput.

This paper was recommended by Regional Editor Tongquan Wei.

Keywords:

References

1. M. D. Berejuck and A. A. Fröhlich, Evaluation of a connectionless technique for system-on-chip interconnection, J. Circuits Syst. Comput. 25 (2016) 1630005. Link, Web of Science, Google Scholar
2. Y. Ouyang et al., AFTER: Asynchronous Fault-Tolerant Router Design in network-on-chip, J. Circuits Syst. Comput. 25 (2016) 1650050. Link, Web of Science, Google Scholar
3. D. W. Matolak et al., Wireless networks-on-chips: Architecture, wireless channel, and devices, IEEE Wireless Commun. 19 (2012) 58–65. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
4. S. Abadal et al., Networking challenges and prospective impact of broadcast-oriented wireless networks-on-chip, Proc. 9th Int. Symp. Networks-on-Chip (ACM, Vancouver, 2015), p. 12. Google Scholar
5. L. Wilson, International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) (Semiconductor Industry Association, La Jolla, 2013). Google Scholar
6. A. Karkar et al., A survey of emerging interconnects for on-chip efficient multicast and broadcast in many-cores, IEEE Circuits Syst. Mag. 16 (2016) 58–72. Google Scholar
7. Y. Ouyang et al., A TSV fault-tolerant scheme based on failure classification in 3D-NoC, J. Circuits Syst. Comput. 26 (2016) 1750059. Link, Web of Science, Google Scholar
8. A. Joshi et al., Silicon-photonic clos networks for global on-chip communication, Proc. 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE Int. Symp. Networks-on-Chip (IEEE Computer Society, 2009), pp. 124–1339. Google Scholar
9. M. F. Chang et al., CMP network-on-chip overlaid with multi-band RF-interconnect, IEEE 14th Int. Symp. High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Salt Lake City (2008), pp. 191–202. Google Scholar
10. J. Murray et al., Thermal hotspot reduction in mm-wave wireless NoC architectures, Int. Symp. Quality Electronic Design (IEEE, Santa Clara, 2014), pp. 645–652. Google Scholar
11. L. Zhu et al., Adaptive fault-tolerant task scheduling for real-time energy harvesting systems, J. Circuits Syst. Comput. 21 (2012) 1250004. Link, Web of Science, Google Scholar
12. P. Dai et al., A study of a wire–wireless hybrid NoC architecture with an energy-proportional multicast scheme for energy efficiency, Comput. Electr. Eng. 45 (2015) 402–416. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
13. S. Deb et al., Design of an efficient NoC architecture using millimeter-wave wireless links, Thirteenth Int. Symp. Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) (IEEE, Santa Clara, 2012), pp. 165–172. Google Scholar
14. A. Ganguly et al., Scalable hybrid wireless network-on-chip architectures for multicore systems, IEEE Trans. Comput. 60 (2011) 1485–1502. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
15. C. Wang, W. H. Hu and N. Bagherzadeh, A wireless network-on-chip design for multicore platforms, 2011 19th Int. Euromicro Conf. Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (IEEE, Ayia Napa, 2011), pp. 409–416. Google Scholar
16. S. Deb et al., Design of an energy-efficient CMOS-compatible NoC architecture with millimeter-wave wireless interconnects, IEEE Trans. Comput. 62 (2013) 2382–2396. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
17. L. Wang, Z. Wang and Y. Jiang, Flow control mechanism for wireless network on-chip, Tenth Int. Conf. Information Technology: New Generations (IEEE, Las Vegas, 2013), pp. 483–488. Google Scholar
18. L. Wang et al., On an overlaid hybrid wire/wireless interconnection architecture for network-on-chip, Int. J. Adv. Comput. Sci. Appl. 5 (2014) 168–174. Google Scholar
19. D. Zhao and Y. Wang, SD mAC: Design and synthesis of a hardware-efficient collision-free QoS-aware MAC protocol for wireless network-on-chip, IEEE Trans. Comput. 57 (2008) 1230–1245. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
20. N. Mansoor, M. S. Shamim and A. Ganguly, A demand-aware predictive dynamic bandwidth allocation mechanism for wireless network-on-chip, System Level Interconnect Prediction Workshop (ACM, Austin, 2016), pp. 1–8. Google Scholar
21. Y. Ouyang, Y. Chen and H. Liang, Design of a low-overhead fault channel isolated fault-tolerant router, Acta Electron. Sin. 42 (2014) 2142–2149. Google Scholar
22. A. Mineo et al., Runtime tunable transmitting power technique in mm-wave WiNoC architectures, IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. (VLSI) Syst. 24 (2016) 1535–1545. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
23. X. Yu et al., A wideband body-enabled millimeter-wave transceiver for wireless network-on-chip, 2011 IEEE 54th Int. Midwest Symp. Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) (IEEE, Seoul, 2011), pp. 1–4. Google Scholar
24. B. Bahrami, M. A. J. Jamali and S. Saeidi, Proposing an optimal structure for the architecture of wireless networks on chip, Telecommun. Syst. 62 (2016) 199–214. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
25. J. Zhou et al., Energy-adaptive scheduling of imprecise computation tasks for QoS optimization in real-time MPSoC systems, Conf. Design, Automation & Test in Europe (European Design and Automation Association, Lausanne, 2017), pp. 1406–1411. Google Scholar
26. J. Zhou et al., Thermal-aware task scheduling for energy minimization in heterogeneous real-time MPSoC systems, IEEE Trans. Comput.-Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 35 (2016) 1269–1282. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
27. H. K. Mondal et al., Adaptive multi-voltage scaling in wireless NoC for high performance low power applications, 2016 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conf. & Exhibition (DATE) (IEEE, 2016), pp. 1315–1320. Google Scholar
28. V. Catania et al., Noxim: An open, extensible and cycle-accurate network on chip simulator, IEEE Int. Conf. Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (IEEE, 2015), pp. 162–163. Google Scholar
29. X. Yu et al., Architecture and design of multichannel millimeter-wave wireless NoC, IEEE Des. Test 31 (2014) 19–28. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar