2nd Internationa ICST Conference on Nano-Networks

Research Article

Dual-channel binary-countdown medium access control in wireless network-on-chip

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2139,
        author={Dan Zhao and Yi Wang and Hongyi Wu},
        title={Dual-channel binary-countdown medium access control in wireless network-on-chip},
        proceedings={2nd Internationa ICST Conference on Nano-Networks},
        proceedings_a={NANO-NET},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Wireless Network-on-Chip RF Node Distribution Medium Access Control binary countdown},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2139}
    }
    
  • Dan Zhao
    Yi Wang
    Hongyi Wu
    Year: 2010
    Dual-channel binary-countdown medium access control in wireless network-on-chip
    NANO-NET
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2139
Dan Zhao1,*, Yi Wang1,*, Hongyi Wu1,*
  • 1: The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette 301 East Lewis Street, Lafayette, LA 70504
*Contact email: dzhao@cacs.louisiana.edu, yxw4316@cacs.louisiana.edu, wu@cacs.louisiana.edu

Abstract

Modern System-on-Chip design uses a rapidly increasing number of processing units for advanced information processing. When moving towards a billion-transistor era, ever increasing complexity and density of embedded components exacerbate on-chip communication, which serves as the fabric to integrate these heterogeneous components and provide a communication mechanism among them. In order to bridge the widening gap between on-chip communication needs and projected SoC performance, we propose a self-configurable multihop wireless micronetwork, dubbed Wireless Network-on-Chip, to serve as on-chip data and control communication infrastructure for next-generation billion-transistor SoCs. We present application-specific system architecture design of WNoC with the focus on radio frequency infrastructure. We propose a synchronized and distributed medium access control protocol for WNoC to resolve contentions between RF nodes. Binary countdown-based contention resolution and hidden terminal elimination schemes increase throughput and network utilization. Our simulation results show that DBC-MAC can achieve a promising performance in terms of throughput, latency, and network configuration.