@PHDTHESIS{ 2017:316542125,
 	title = {High-level modelling of optical integrated networks-based systems with the provision of a low latency controller},
 	year = {2017},
 	url = "http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7742",
 	abstract = "Design trends for next-generation Multi-Processor Systems point to the integration of a
 large number of processing cores, requiring high-performance interconnects. One solution being
 applied to improve the communication infrastructure in such systems is the usage of Networkson-
 Chip as they present considerable improvement in the bandwidth and scaleability. Still as the
 number of integrated cores continues to increase and the system scales, the metallic interconnects
 in Networks-on-Chip can become a performance bottleneck. As a result, a new strategy must be
 adopted in order for those issues to be remedied.
 Optical Integrated Networks (OINs) are currently considered to be one of the most promising
 paradigm in this design context: they present higher bandwidth, lower power consumption and
 lower latency to broadcast information. Also, the latest work demonstrates the feasibility of OINs
 with their fabrication technologies being available and CMOS compatible.
 However, OINs’ designers face several challenges:
 • Currently, controllers represent the main communication bottleneck and are one of the factors
 limiting the usage of OINs. Therefore, new controlling solutions with low latency are required.
 • Designers lack tools to model and validate OINs. Most research nowadays is focused on
 designing devices and improving basic components performance, leaving system unattended.
 In this context, in order to ease the deployment of OIN-based systems, this PhD project focuses on
 three main contributions: (1) the development of accurate system-level modelling study to realize a
 system-level simulation platform; (2) the definition and development of an efficient control approach
 for OIN-based systems, and; (3) the system-level evaluation of the proposed control approach using
 the defined modelling.",
 	publisher = {Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul},
 	scholl = {Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação},
 	note = {Faculdade de Informática}
}