1.2. Organization of the Paper
The paper is organized as follows. We start with related work for on-chip communication architectures. Section 3 describes three wireless standards (HiperLAN/2, UMTS and Digital Radio Mondiale) and determines their common communication characteristics. Section 4 gives the reasons for reconsidering a circuit-switched network. Using the characteristics of other NoC solutions and the requirements of the wireless applications a new NoC architecture is developed. Section 5 describes this architecture. Section 6 describes several scenarios for benchmark the power consumption of our architecture. The paper concludes with a comparison of our router with an equivalent packet-switched router.