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Initial MAC Exploration for Graphene-enabled Wireless Networks-on-Chip

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NANOCOM' 14: Proceedings of ACM The First Annual International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2619955.2619963

Published: 06 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

In the upcoming many-core era, chip multiprocessor architectures will be composed of hundreds or even thousands of processor cores, which interact among them through an on-chip communication platform for synchronization and data coherency/consistency purposes. As the traffic generated within the chip becomes more multicast-intensive, it is necessary to conceive novel communication platforms that go beyond conventional schemes and guarantee multicast support with high throughput, low latency, and low power. Nanotechnology provides an opportunity within this context by virtue of terahertz graphene antennas, which could allow the integration of one antenna per core in a Graphene-enabled Wireless Network-on-Chip (GWNoC). However, it is essential to design an appropriate MAC protocol in order to fully benefit from this novel approach. To provide a first contribution in this direction, in this paper we design two baseline MAC protocols based on the well-known ALOHA and carrier sensing techniques. Their functionalities have been properly conceived by taking into account characteristics and requirements of future chip multiprocessors systems. Moreover, their performances have been evaluated by means of computer simulations under different chip configurations. Obtained results demonstrate the pros and cons of these simple contention-based MAC protocols and pave the way for the future exploration of the MAC design space.

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