A network model for routing-fault-free wavelength selection in WRONoCs design

Abstract

Emerging technologies in on-chip communication domain bring about new combinatorial optimization problems at design automation. We address the Wavelength Selection Problem in Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks-on-Chip (WRONoCs), where wavelengths act as signal carriers for initiator-to-target communication, so that signals are the least interfering and routing faults are prevented. We present this novel engineering problem and model it as a constrained shortest path on acyclic networks, propose a graph-based mathematical formulation and an iterative procedure on incremental graphs to solve the model on realistic data.