Minhaj Hassan presented his paper “Bubble Sharing: Area and Energy Efficient Adaptive Routers using Centralized Buffers” at NOCS 2014 in September

Minhaj Hassan presented the paper “Bubble Sharing: Area and Energy Efficient Adaptive Routers using Centralized Buffers” at NOCS 2014 in September. The paper proposes a flow control mechanism for on-chip networks that provides deadlock freedom guarantees with the use of small, shared central buffers, eliminating the need of edge buffers in the routers. The result is an improved buffer space utilization with lower power and higher throughput. The technique effectively reconciles the trade-off between high radix and buffer space, encouraging the use of low hop count, high-radix topologies, with both deterministic and adaptive routing. See paper.