Energy-Efficient Multipath Ring Network for Heterogeneous Clustered Neuronal Arrays
Andrei Ardelean · River Publishers eBooks · 2022
In this chapter, based on a clustered SNN simulator concept, an energy-efficient multipath ring network topology for the neuron-to-neuron communication is proposed. Multiple neuron models such as leaky integrate-and-fire, Izhikevich, and Hodgkin-Huxley have been developed and implemented in hardware, with each providing different levels of realism. It summarizes basic concepts related to the studied topic and state-of-the-art research in the field. The chapter presents the analyzed neuron communication schemes and defines the proposed system structure as well as assumptions on which it is based. It focuses on the system architecture and its analysis and compares the multipath ring and two-dimensional torus network topologies, as well as presents the energy-delay product estimation for different network topologies. The communication network is tasked with delivering data packets between all the clusters in the system in an efficient manner.