Wireless Small-World NoCs

Introducing long-range, low-power, and high-bandwidth, single-hop links between far apart cores can significantly enhance the performance of Network-on-Chip (NoC) fabrics. Design of a small-world network-based NoC architecture with on-chip wireless links is capable of improving the overall latency and energy dissipation characteristics compared to the conventional wireline-based counterpart. This chapter focuses on incorporating long-range wireless links on a small-world NoC topology through the use of either carbon nanotube or millimeter-wave antennas.