Real-time analysis of priority-preemptive NoCs with arbitrary buffer sizes and router delays

B Nikolić, S Tobuschat, L Soares Indrusiak, R Ernst… - Real-Time …, 2019 - Springer
Nowadays available multiprocessor platforms predominantly use a network-on-chip (NoC)
architecture as an interconnect medium, due to its good scalability and performance. During …

Extending real-time analysis for wormhole NoCs

Q Xiong, F Wu, Z Lu, C Xie - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The delay upper-bound analysis problem is of fundamental importance to real-time
applications in Network-on-Chips (NoCs). In the paper, we revisit two state-of-the-art …

Real-time communication analysis for networks-on-chip with backpressure

S Tobuschat, R Ernst - Design, Automation & Test in Europe …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) for safety-critical domains require formal guarantees for the worst-
case behavior of all real-time senders. The majority of existing analysis approaches is …

Real-time analysis for wormhole NoC: Revisited and revised

Q Xiong, Z Lu, F Wu, C Xie - Proceedings of the 26th edition on Great …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The network delay upper-bound analysis problem is of fundamental importance to real-time
applications in Network-on-Chip (NoC). In the paper, we revisit a state-of-the-art analysis …

Buffer-aware bounds to multi-point progressive blocking in priority-preemptive NoCs

LS Indrusiak, A Burns, B Nikolić - 2018 Design, Automation & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to reduce the pessimism of the analysis of the multi-point progressive
blocking (MPB) problem in real-time priority-preemptive wormhole networks-on-chip. It …

Reduced worst-case communication latency using single-cycle multihop traversal network-on-chip

P Chen, W Liu, H Chen, S Li, M Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The communication latency in traditional network-on-chip (NoC) with hop-by-hop traversal is
inherently restricted by the distance between source-destination communicating pairs …

Buffer space allocation for real-time priority-aware networks

H Kashif, H Patel - 2016 IEEE Real-Time and Embedded …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we address the challenge of incorporating buffer space constraints in worst-
case latency analysis for priority-aware networks. A priority-aware network is a wormhole …

Analysis of buffering effects on hard real-time priority-preemptive wormhole networks

LS Indrusiak, A Burns, B Nikolic - arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02942, 2016 - arxiv.org
There are several approaches to analyse the worst-case response times of sporadic packets
transmitted over priority-preemptive wormhole networks. In this paper, we provide an …

A novel flow control mechanism to avoid multi-point progressive blocking in hard real-time priority-preemptive NoCs

A Burns, LS Indrusiak, N Smirnov… - 2020 IEEE Real-Time …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recently uncovered problem of multi-point progressive blocking (MPB) has significantly
increased the complexity of schedulability analysis of priority-preemptive wormhole …

[PDF][PDF] MTW: An empirical performance study

LM Sokol, JB Weissman, PA Mutchler - 1991 - repository.lib.ncsu.edu
This paper presents some performance results for the Moving Time Window (MTW) parallel
simulation control protocol: a scheduling paradigm for parallel discrete-event simulation …