Akram Ben Ahmed

Digital Architecture Center
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2-3-26 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo JAPAN

Phone: +81-29-849-1509
Email: akram (dot) benahmed (at) aist (dot) go (dot) jp

orcid.org/0000-0002-1253-8620

News

The call for Papers for the Special Issue "State-of-the-Art Electronics in Japan" in MDPI Electronics has been released.

The call for Papers for the Special Issue "Recent Advances in Microelectronics Devices and Integrated Circuit" in MDPI Electronics has been released.

Profile

Akram BEN AHMED received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Sfax, Tunisia in 2009. He received his M.S.E and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Aizu, Japan in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Upon his graduation, he joined the Amano laboratory at Keio University, Japan, as a postdoctoral researcher. He is currently a Research Scientist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

Research Interests

On-chip interconnections
Reliability and Fault-tolerant systems
Ultra low-power embedded systems

Journals

Hayate Okuhara, Akram Ben Ahmed, Johannes Maximilian Kühn, Hideharu Amano, ''Asymmetric Body Bias Control with Low Power FD-SOI Technologies: Modeling and Power Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, 26 (7) 1254-1267, July 2018.
Hayate Okuhara, Akram Ben Ahmed, Hideharu Amano, ''Digitally Assisted On-chip Body Bias Tuning Scheme for Ultra Low-power VLSI Systems", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 65 (10) 3241 - 3254, October 2018.
Khanh N. Dang, Akram Ben Ahmed, Xuan-Tu Tran, Yuichi Okuyama, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Scalable design methodology and online algorithm for TSV-cluster defects recovery in highly reliable 3D-NoC systems", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, October 2017 (In press).
Khanh N. Dang, Akram Ben Ahmed, Yuichi Okuyama, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''A Comprehensive Reliability Assessment of Fault-Resilient Network-on-Chip Using Analytical Model". IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 25 (11) 3099-3112, November 2017.
Akram Ben Ahmed, Hiroki Matsutani, Michihiro Koibuchi, Kimiyoshi Usami, and Hideharu Amano, ''Multi-Voltage Variable Pipeline Routers with the Same Clock Frequency for Low-power Network-on-Chips Systems", IEICE Transactions on Electronics, E99-C (8) 909-917, August 2016.
Akram Ben Ahmed and Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Architecture and Routing Algorithm for Reliable Many-Core 3D-NoC systems", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 93 (94) 30-43, July 2016.
Akram Ben Ahmed and Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Graceful deadlock-free Fault-tolerant Routing Algorithm for 3D-Network-on-Chip Architectures", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 74 (4) 2229-2240, April 2014.
Akram Ben Ahmed and Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Architecture and Design of High-throughput, Low-latency and Fault Tolerant Routing Algorithm for 3D-Network-on-Chip", The Journal of Supercomputing, 66 (3) 1507-1532, December 2013.

International Conferences

Akram Ben Ahmed, Daichi Fujiki, Hiroki Matsutani, Michihiro Koibuchi and Hideharu Amano, ''AxNoC: Low-power Approximate Network-on-Chips using Critical-Path Isolation", In Proc. of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS-2018), Turin, Italy, pp. 44-51, October, 2018 (Best Paper Award Candidate).
Akram Ben Ahmed, Hayate Okuhara, Hiroki Matsutani, Michihiro Koibuchi and Hideharu Amano, ''Adaptive Body Bias Control Scheme for Ultra Low-power Network-on-Chip Systems", In Proc. of the IEEE 7th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore SoCs (MCSoC-18), Hanoi, Vietnam, pp. 146-153 , September, 2018.
Hayate Okuhara, Akram Ben Ahmed, Johannes Maximilian Kühn and Hideharu Amano, ''Leveraging asymmetric body bias control for low power LSI design", In Proc. of the IEEE COOL Chips XIX, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 1-3, April, 2017.
Johannes Maximilian Kühn, Akram Ben Ahmed, Hayate Okuhara, Hideharu Amano, Oliver Bringmann, and Wolfgang Rosenstiel, ''MuCCRA4-BB: A Fine-Grained Body Biasing Capable DRP", In Proc. of the IEEE COOL Chips, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 1-3, April, 2016.
Michael Meyer, Akram Ben Ahmed, Yuki Tanaka, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''On the Design of a Fault-tolerant Photonic Network-on-Chip", In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hong Kong, pp. 821-826, October, 2015.
Michael Meyer, Akram Ben Ahmed, Yuichi Okuyama, and Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''FTTDOR: Microring Fault-resilient Optical Router for Reliable Network-on-Chip Systems", In Proc. of the IEEE 9th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore SoCs (MCSoC-15), Turin, Italy, pp. 227-234, September, 2015.
Abderazek Ben Abdallah, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Akram Ben Ahmed, Michael Meyer, Yuichi Okuyama, ''Fault-tolerant Router for Highly-reliable Many-core 3D-NoC Systems", In Proc. of the 3rd International Scientific Conference on Engineering and Applied Sciences (ISCEAS 2015), Okinawa, Japan, July, 2015.
Akram Ben Ahmed, Michael Meyer, Yuichi Okuyama, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Adaptive Error- and Traffic-aware Router Architecture for Electrical 3D Network-on-Chip Systems", In Proc. of the IEEE 8th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore SoCs (MCSoC-14), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, pp. 197-204, September, 2014.
Akram Ben Ahmed, Achraf Ben Ahmed, and Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Deadlock-Recovery Support for Fault-tolerant Routing Algorithms in 3D-NoC Architectures", In Proc. of the IEEE 7th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore SoCs (MCSoC-13), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 67-72, September, 2012.
Akram Ben Ahmed, Takayuki Ochi, Shohei Miura, A. Ben Abdallah, ''Run-Time Monitoring Mechanism for Efficient Design of Application-specific NoC Architectures in Multi/Manycore Era", In Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Engineering Parallel and Multicore Systems, Taichung, Taiwan, pp. 440-445, July, 2013.
Akram Ben Ahmed, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Low-overhead Routing Algorithm for 3D Network-on-Chip", In Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Networking and Computing (ICNC-12), Okinawa, Japan, pp. 23-32, December, 2012.
Akram Ben Ahmed, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''LA-XYZ: Low Latency, High Throughput Look-Ahead Routing Algorithm for 3D Network-on-Chip (3D-NoC) Architecture", In Proc. of the IEEE 6th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore SoCs (MCSoC-12), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, pp. 167-174, September, 2012.
Akram Ben Ahmed, Kenichi Mori, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''ONoC-SPL Customized Network-on-Chip (NoC) Architecture and Prototyping for Data-intensive Computation Applications", In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST-2012), Seoul, South Korea, pp. 257-262, August,2012.
Akram Ben Ahmed, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, Kenichi Kuroda ''Architecture and Design of Efficient 3D Network-on-Chip (3D NoC) for Custom Multi-Core SoC", In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA-2010), Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 67-73, November 4-6, 2010 (Best Paper Award).