Q-StaR: A Quasi-Static Routing Scheme for NoCs

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yang, Zhao, Yiren, Wang, Xu, Ren, Fengyuan
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Publicado: 2026
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author Zhang, Yang
Zhao, Yiren
Wang, Xu
Ren, Fengyuan
author_facet Zhang, Yang
Zhao, Yiren
Wang, Xu
Ren, Fengyuan
contents In networks-on-chip, static routing schemes are favored for their simplicity and predictability, but they cannot effectively balance network load due to the unawareness of runtime load distribution. Q-StaR discovers two factors (topology and traffic distribution) that determine the long-term trend of load distribution, and proposes N-Rank to extract this trend. The obtained information is used to guide BiDOR's route selection at runtime, thereby improving load balancing while retaining simplicity and predictability. Simulation validates that Q-StaR significantly outperforms the typical dimension-order routing (throughput under uniform traffic improved by 42.9\%, and mean/maximum latency under realistic workloads reduced by 86.4\%/95.3\%).
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spellingShingle Q-StaR: A Quasi-Static Routing Scheme for NoCs
Zhang, Yang
Zhao, Yiren
Wang, Xu
Ren, Fengyuan
Networking and Internet Architecture
In networks-on-chip, static routing schemes are favored for their simplicity and predictability, but they cannot effectively balance network load due to the unawareness of runtime load distribution. Q-StaR discovers two factors (topology and traffic distribution) that determine the long-term trend of load distribution, and proposes N-Rank to extract this trend. The obtained information is used to guide BiDOR's route selection at runtime, thereby improving load balancing while retaining simplicity and predictability. Simulation validates that Q-StaR significantly outperforms the typical dimension-order routing (throughput under uniform traffic improved by 42.9\%, and mean/maximum latency under realistic workloads reduced by 86.4\%/95.3\%).
title Q-StaR: A Quasi-Static Routing Scheme for NoCs
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10637