Table 19 Sensitivity to weight profiles (8 × 8, 10% link faults). Changes vs. Equal profile.

From: Fault tolerant and quality of service aware routing algorithm based on priority technique for scalable network on chip architectures

Profile

(\(\:{w}_{\text{p}\text{a}\text{t}\text{h}}\), \(\:{w}_{\text{c}\text{o}\text{n}\text{g}}\), \(\:{w}_{\text{f}\text{a}\text{u}\text{l}\text{t}}\))

Δ Throughput

Δ Delay

Equal (baseline)

(0.33, 0.33, 0.34)

0.0%

0.0%

Path-biased

(0.50, 0.25, 0.25)

−2.1%

+ 3.2%

Congestion-biased

(0.25, 0.50, 0.25)

+ 0.8%

−1.6%

Fault-biased

(0.25, 0.25, 0.50)

+ 2.4%

−3.1%

Balanced-robust

(0.40, 0.30, 0.30)

+ 0.5%

−0.9%

Adaptive (context-aware)

≈(0.30, 0.34, 0.36)*

+ 3.1%

−5.0%

  1. *Effective average over the run; weights are time-varying but normalized.