Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet
Journal of High Speed Networks - Special issue on optical networking
The Odd-Even Turn Model for Adaptive Routing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Route packets, not wires: on-chip inteconnection networks
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
Optical networks: a practical perspective
Optical networks: a practical perspective
Introduction to Algorithms
DyAD: smart routing for networks-on-chip
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
Load Distribution with the Proximity Congestion Awareness in a Network on Chip
DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
High-level power analysis for on-chip networks
Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
Exact emulation of a priority queue with a switch and delay lines
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Constructions of optical FIFO queues
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) - Special issue on networking and information theory
Trends toward on-chip networked microsystems
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
Modeling Toroidal Networks with the Gaussian Integers
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Photonic Networks-on-Chip for Future Generations of Chip Multiprocessors
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Contention-free on-chip routing of optical packets
NOCS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
Outstanding research problems in NoC design: system, microarchitecture, and circuit perspectives
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
The Topology of Gaussian and Eisenstein-Jacobi Interconnection Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Enabling high availability over multiple optical networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Shared fiber delay line buffers in asynchronous optical packet switches
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Part Supplement
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With the development of Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MP-SoC) in recent years, the intra-chip communication is becoming the bottleneck of the whole system. Current electronic network-on-chip (NoC) designs face serious challenges, such as bandwidth, latency and power consumption. Optical interconnection networks are a promising technology to overcome these problems. In this paper, we study the routing problem in optical NoCs with arbitrary network topologies. Traditionally, a minimum hop count routing policy is employed for electronic NoCs, as it minimizes both power consumption and latency. However, due to the special architecture of current optical NoC routers, such a minimum-hop path may not be energy-wise optimal. Using a detailed model of optical routers we reduce the energy-aware routing problem into a shortest-path problem, which can then be solved using one of the many well known techniques. By applying our approach to different popular topologies, we show that the energy consumed in data communication in an optical NoC can be significantly reduced. We also propose the use of optical burst switching (OBS) in optical NoCs to reduce control overhead, as well as an adaptive routing mechanism to reduce energy consumption without introducing extra latency. Our simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.