A set of traffic models for Network-on-Chip benchmarking

This paper presents a set of 9 application traffic models for benchmarking Networks-on-Chip designs. Common benchmarks allow fair comparison, reproduction of research results, and accelerate NoC development. The set is based on real applications found in literature and executable on freely available benchmarking tool called Transaction Generator (TG). It was found that traffic target distribution is far from uniform and bandwidth requirements vary very much between tasks and between applications. TG and the model source codes are freely available. Models are stored in XML format and are based on task graphs with on average 15 processing tasks. The average communication load is about 2 GByte/s.