BUFFER EFFICIENCY IN WORMHOLE ROUTERS
J. Ge, R. He · International Journal of Computers and Applications · 2006
AbstractThe efficiency of buffer usage in wormhole torus networks is evaluated withemphasis on new routing algorithms. These algorithms use hardwired dateline and allow flits of different packets to co-reside in buffers along escape virtual channels so that the bottleneck links and bubble problems in existing algorithms can be alleviated. The algorithms are demonstrated to be deadlock-free and more efficient in use of buffer space than their counterparts.