A Suite of IEEE 1687 Benchmark Networks

The saturation of the IJTAG concept and its approval as the IEEE 1687 standard in 2014 has generated a wave of research activities and created demand for a set of appropriate and challenging benchmarks. This paper presents such a set developed by an industrial and academic consortium and constructed in a way that facilitates objective comparison of experimental results across research groups as well as represents challenging network examples exhaustively utilizing features and constructs defined by the standard. The suite is arranged in four comprehensive categories, each having its particular purpose and composition principles, as described in the paper. We have also made an analysis of limitations of previous popular and ad-hoc benchmark sets as these limitations majorly motivated our current action. The new public-domain benchmarks are distributed together with source files and documentation through the dedicated web site. Some of the previous research results on IEEE 1687 have been reapplied on the new benchmarks set, thus creating an important initial reference point for the research community.