“…Today'sapplicationsthatrunonembeddedsystemssuchasmultimedia (Sanchez,Agostini,Sousa, &Marcon,2018),automativecontext (Rettkowski,Wehner,Schülper,&Göhringer,2015;Stoychev et al, 2016), signal processing (Meloni, Tuveri, Pani, Raffo, & Palumbo, 2015), and healthcare (Iranfaretal.,2018;Mimouni&Karim,2014)haveperformancerequirementswhichcannolonger besatisfiedbyuniprocessorsystems (Tafesse&Muthukumar,2013).HeterogeneousMulti-processor Systems-on-Chips(MPSoCs)arewidelyacceptedasasolutionforfutureembeddedsystems (Leupers, Aguilar,Eusse,Castrillon,&Sheng,2017).Withtheincreaseofthenumberofprocessingelements inSystems-on-Chip(SoCs),itbecomesverydifficulttocontinuewiththetraditionalnon-scalable bus-basedcommunicationsystems (Mukherjee&Chattopadhyay,2017).TheNetworkonchip(NoC) (Benini&Micheli,2002)paradigmhasbeenintroducedasapromisinginterconnectionsolutionto thesesystems.NoCsofferascalableandflexible-communicationinfrastructurewithhighlysupported modularityandpowerfulperformance (Hesham,Rettkowski,Goehringer,&Ghany,2017).…”