  Modern System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms typically consist of multiple
processors and a communication interconnect between them. Network-on-Chip (NoC)
arises as a solution to interconnect these systems, which provides a scalable,
reusable, and an efficient interconnect. For these SoC platforms, multicast
communication is significantly used for parallel applications. Cache coherency
in distributed sharedmemory,clock synchronization, replication, or barrier
synchronization are examples of these requests. This paper presents an overview
of research on NoC with support for multicast communication and delineates the
major issues addressed so far by the scientific community in this investigation
area.
