Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 8, No 4: December 2019

Comparative performance evaluation of routing algorithm and topology size for wireless network-on-chip

Asrani Lit (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak)
M. S. Rusli (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
M. N. Marsono (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2019

Abstract

Wireless Network-on-Chip or WiNoC is an alternative to traditional planar on-chip networks. On-chip wireless links are utilized to reduce latency between distant nodes due to its capability to communicate with far-away node within a single hop. This paper analyzes the impact of various routing schemes and the effect of WiNoC sizes on network traffic distributions compared to conventional mesh NoC. Radio hubs (4×4) are evenly placed on WiNoC to analyze global average delay, throughput, energy consumption and wireless utilization. For validation, three various network sizes (8×8,   16×16 and 32×32) of mesh NoC and WiNoC architectures are simulated on cycle-accurate Noxim simulator under numerous traffic load distributions. Simulation results show that WiNoC architecture with the 16×16 network size has better average speedup (∼1.2×) and improved network throughputs by 6.36% in non-uniform transpose traffic distribution. As the trade-off, WiNoC requires 63% higher energy consumption compared to the classical wired NoC mesh.

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