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An efficient protocol for physico-chemical characterization of gum exudates collected from the drumstick tree (Moringa oleifera Lam.) has been reported in the present study. Extraction of gum metabolites was done using a series of water, alcohol, acid, and alkali solvent systems. The gum was sparingly soluble in water at room temperature and formed a colloidal solution. Solubility of the gum gradually increased in the solvent gradient (80% ethanol, deionized water, 0.05 M HCl, and 0.05 M NaOH) at 90 °C. Further, electron microscopy revealed that the acetyl group is essential in maintaining the structural integrity, and deacetylation of gum resulted in formation of a mesh of scattered and fibrous particles. Treatment of gum with deionized water resulted in development of a hydrocolloidal matrix with a pore size of 0.5 μm, which upon deacetylation was reduced up to 0.2 μm. The polymer was amorphous in nature and showed maximum thermal stability in ethanol. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry of the gum polymer revealed that carbohydrate derivatives constituted its major part (>75%). Maximum carbohydrate concentration was obtained in the ethanol soluble fraction, along with fatty acids (10%) and secondary metabolites (9%). The results provided very first confirmation of the hydrocolloidal properties and thermostability of the gum exudates obtained from the drumstick tree, which can further be used to develop an eco-friendly and nontoxic bioligand.

Recent advances in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) technologies have offered the capability of integrating thousands of processing elements onto a single silicon microchip. Multiprocessor systems-on-chips (MPSoCs) are the latest creation of this technology evolution. Network-on-Chip (NoC) is a scalable and promising interconnection solution used by MPSoCs to achieve high performance. Routing algorithms provide a path to a packet toward the destination. For this, these algorithms should exhibit two characteristics. First, the route selection function should provide enough degree of adaptiveness to avoid network congestion. Second, it should not offer stale information on network congestion status to the neighboring routers. Many researchers have investigated network congestion and proposed techniques to control/avoid congestion. Such congestion avoidance-based algorithms significantly improve NoC performance. However, they may result in hardware overhead for side network implementation to collect congestion status. This paper reviews the selection strategies used to reduce congestion in NoC and classifies them on the technique adopted to handle and propagate congestion information. Additionally, this paper provides the implementation and analysis details of some state-of-art selection methods.