International Workshop on Dynamic Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip

DRNoC 2012

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Scope and Objectives

Emerging SoCs (System-on-Chip), such as those for mobile systems, are typically battery-powered systems and have to support a wide range of streaming applications such as video and audio. Network-on-chip (NoC) has been recently proposed for SoCs applications design to achieve better performance and lower energy consumption when compared to conventional on-chip bus architectures.

Several approaches have been proposed to deal with NoC and can be classified into two main categories, design-time approaches and run-time approaches. Design-time approaches are generally tailored an application domain or a specific application by providing an application- specific NoC. All parameters, such as the on-chip interconnect architecture (i.e., topology), routing, and switching schemes, are defined at design time. However, NoC should be scalable and adaptive to support various applications by selecting the most suitable parameters based on the requirements of the current application and system conditions.

Recently, there has been a great deal of interest in the development of run-time approaches for reconfigurable NoC. These approaches provide techniques that allow NoC to autonomously adapt its structure and their behavior during the course of their operation (i.e., in runtime). For example, the number of VCs (virtual channels) and the buffer size per VC can be dynamically adjusted based on the traffic load and network status.

DRNoC'12 workshop is intended to serve as a forum and bring together the researchers and engineers in both academia and industry to exchange ideas, share experiences, and report original works about all aspects of dynamic reconfigurable NoC. It will cover current and new approaches and relevant activities in the design, analysis, and evaluation of techniques for dynamic reconfigurable NoC.

List of topics

The Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Topologies reconfiguration for NoC
• Routing algorithms, switching techniques, and flow control schemes
• Mapping and scheduling of tasks into NoC
• Self-reconfiguration and self-optimization of NoC
• Bio-inspired techniques for reconfigurable NoC
• Analytical evaluation methods for designing reconfigurable NoC
• Area, energy, and performance evaluation
• Tools for design space exploration of reconfigurable NoC
• Cases studies and FPGA-based implementation of reconfigurable NoC

Instructions for Authors

You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to Dynamic Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 7 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to HPCS 2012 website for the submission details) will also be accepted for submission. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via email to the Workshop organizers at mohamed.bakhouya@aalto.fi and gaber@utbm.fr. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2012 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed accordingly.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.

Important Dates

Abstract submission	Full paper submission	Acceptance notification	Camera Ready Papers and Registration	Conference Dates
February 22, 2012	February 28, 2012	March 21, 2012	April 11, 2012	July 2-6, 2012

International Program Committee

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2012.

• Klaus Hofmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
• Pascal LORENZ, University of Haute Alsace, France
• Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, D.C., USA
• Smail Niar, University of Valenciennes, France
• Miaoqing Huang, University of Arkansas, AR, USA
• Maxime wack, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France
• Vikram Narayana, George Washington University, D.C., USA
• Haoyuan Ying, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
• Eric Coatanea, Aalto University, Finland
• Sergio Lopez-Buedo, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
• TBC*

(* Partial TPC. To be completed shortly.)

Invited Speakers

Will be posted soon

Workshop Organizers

Mohamed Bakhouya
Aalto university
FIN-00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland
voice: +358 (0)417085626
emails: mohamed.bakhouya@aalto.fi

Jaafar Gaber
Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard
Rue Thierry Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, France
voice: +33 (0)3-8458-3252
fax: +33 (0)3-8458-3342
emails: gaber@utbm.fr

For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at HPCS 2012 . If you have any questions about the HPCS 2012 conference paper submission, please contact Conference Program Chair: Waleed W. Smari, Voice: +1 (937) 681-0098, Email: smari@arys.org.