Publications in (On-Chip) Interconnection Networks

Quality of Service and Prioritization

• Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Kilo-NOC: A Heterogeneous Network-on-Chip Architecture for Scalability and Service Guarantees"
  IEEE Micro, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from 2011 Computer Architecture Conferences (MICRO TOP PICKS), Vol. 32, No. 3, May/June 2012.
• Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Kilo-NOC: A Heterogeneous Network-on-Chip Architecture for Scalability and Service Guarantees"
  Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), San Jose, CA, June 2011. Slides (pptx)
  One of the 12 computer architecture papers of 2011 selected as Top Picks by IEEE Micro.
  
• Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Akhilesh Kumar, and Mani Azimi,
  "Application-to-Core Mapping Policies to Reduce Interference in On-Chip Networks"
  SAFARI Technical Report, TR-SAFARI-2011-001, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2011.
• Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda, and Chita R. Das,
  "Aergia: A Network-on-Chip Exploiting Packet Latency Slack"
  IEEE Micro, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from 2010 Computer Architecture Conferences (MICRO TOP PICKS), Vol. 31, No. 1, January/February 2011.
• George Nychis, Chris Fallin, Thomas Moscibroda, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Next Generation On-Chip Networks: What Kind of Congestion Control Do We Need?"
  Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), Monterey, CA, October 2010. Slides (ppt) (key)
  
• Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda, and Chita R. Das,
  "Aergia: Exploiting Packet Latency Slack in On-Chip Networks"
  Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010. Slides (pptx)
  One of the 11 computer architecture papers of 2010 selected as Top Picks by IEEE Micro.
• Boris Grot, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Topology-aware Quality-of-Service Support in Highly Integrated Chip Multiprocessors"
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010. Slides (pptx)

• Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda, and Chita R. Das,
  "Application-Aware Prioritization Mechanisms for On-Chip Networks"
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), New York, NY, December 2009.

• Boris Grot, Steve Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Preemptive Virtual Clock: A Flexible, Efficient, and Cost-effective QOS Scheme for Networks-on-Chip"
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), New York, NY, December 2009.

Topology

• Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Kilo-NOC: A Heterogeneous Network-on-Chip Architecture for Scalability and Service Guarantees"
  IEEE Micro, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from 2011 Computer Architecture Conferences (MICRO TOP PICKS), Vol. 32, No. 3, May/June 2012.
• Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Kilo-NOC: A Heterogeneous Network-on-Chip Architecture for Scalability and Service Guarantees"
  Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), San Jose, CA, June 2011. Slides (pptx)
  One of the 12 computer architecture papers of 2011 selected as Top Picks by IEEE Micro.
  
• Boris Grot, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Topology-aware Quality-of-Service Support in Highly Integrated Chip Multiprocessors"
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010.

• Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Steve Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Express Cube Topologies for On-Chip Interconnects"
  Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), pages 163-174, Raleigh, NC, February 2009. Slides (ppt)
  

Deflection Routing

• Chris Fallin, Greg Nazario, Xiangyao Yu, Kevin Chang, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, and Onur Mutlu,
  "MinBD: Minimally-Buffered Deflection Routing for Energy-Efficient Interconnect"
  Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS), Lyngby, Denmark, May 2012.
• Chris Fallin, Xiangyao Yu, Greg Nazario, and Onur Mutlu,
  "A High-Performance Hierarchical Ring On-Chip Interconnect with Low-Cost Routers"
  SAFARI Technical Report, TR-SAFARI-2011-007, Carnegie Mellon University, September 2011.
• George Nychis, Chris Fallin, Thomas Moscibroda, Srinivasan Seshan, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Congestion Control for Scalability in Bufferless On-Chip Networks"
  SAFARI Technical Report, TR-SAFARI-2011-003, Carnegie Mellon University, July 2011.
• Chris Fallin, Chris Craik, and Onur Mutlu,
  "CHIPPER: A Low-Complexity Bufferless Deflection Router"
  Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), San Antonio, TX, February 2011. Slides (pptx)
  An extended version as SAFARI Technical Report, TR-SAFARI-2010-001, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2010.
• George Nychis, Chris Fallin, Thomas Moscibroda, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Next Generation On-Chip Networks: What Kind of Congestion Control Do We Need?"
  Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), Monterey, CA, October 2010. Slides (ppt) (key)
  
• Thomas Moscibroda and Onur Mutlu,
  "A Case for Bufferless Routing in On-Chip Networks"
  Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pages 196-207, Austin, TX, June 2009. Slides (pptx)
  
• Thomas Moscibroda and Onur Mutlu,
  "A Case for Bufferless Routing in On-Chip Networks"
  4-Page Position Paper, Microsoft Research Technical Report, July 2008. Outdated version. Please see the ISCA 2009 paper above.

Congestion Control

• Kevin Chang, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Chris Fallin, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Adaptive Cluster Throttling: Improving High-Load Performance in Bufferless On-Chip Networks"
  SAFARI Technical Report, TR-SAFARI-2011-006, Carnegie Mellon University, September 2011.
• George Nychis, Chris Fallin, Thomas Moscibroda, Srinivasan Seshan, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Congestion Control for Scalability in Bufferless On-Chip Networks"
  SAFARI Technical Report, TR-SAFARI-2011-003, Carnegie Mellon University, July 2011.
• George Nychis, Chris Fallin, Thomas Moscibroda, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Next Generation On-Chip Networks: What Kind of Congestion Control Do We Need?"
  Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), Monterey, CA, October 2010. Slides (ppt) (key)
  

Modeling and Analysis

• Michael Papamichael, James C. Hoe, and Onur Mutlu,
  "FIST: A Fast, Lightweight, FPGA-Friendly Packet Latency Estimator for NoC Modeling in Full-System Simulations"
  Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS), Pittsburgh, PA, May 2011.

• Paul Bogdan, Miray Kas, Radu Marculescu, and Onur Mutlu,
  "QuaLe: A Quantum-Leap Inspired Model for Non-Stationary Analysis of NoC Traffic in Multi-Processor Platforms"
  Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS), Grenoble, France, May 2010.