Traffic characterization for multicasting in NoC

NoC (Network on Chip) is an emerging paradigm for design of VLSI/ULSI circuits to overcome communication bottleneck of traditional bus based systems. NoC communication framework consists of regularly placed routers, which are connected to processing cores. NoC performance is determined by latency and throughput for communication requirements. NoC communication traffic modelling plays an important role in design of NoC simulators and/or prototypes. This paper presents a framework for modelling source traffic for multipoint communication from one source to different destinations as is required for multicasting. Such a traffic model captures real-world scenarios such as multicasting, execution of concurrent multiple tasks on a single core (each task requiring communication with different destinations). The model proposes how concurrent traffic streams from a single core to different destinations can be mathematically characterized as a single stream at source end. The model is derived from statistical behaviour of probabilistically demultiplexing of a single traffic stream. In its nascent stage, the method is proposed for a scenario of one source concurrently communicating with two destinations as shall be required for mapping two concurrent tasks to same core or simultaneous broadcast to two destinations.