Centralized and Software-Based Run-Time Traffic Management Inside Configurable Regions of Interest in Mesh-Based Networks-on-Chip

This work proposes the introduction of multiple spatially independent network interfaces in order to connect computational resources to mesh-based Networks-on-Chip (NoCs). Furthermore, a flexible system for traffic monitoring is introduced supporting runtime reconfigurability as well as software-based centralized data aggregation and evaluation. These approaches are combined to form a sophisticated framework for runtime traffic management of NoC-based many-core systems exploiting the dual-path options of the underlying network.