Performance Analysis of Master-Slave Multi-Hop Switched Ethernet Networks

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

Ashjaei, M (Author) Other; Behnam, M (Author) Other; Nolte, T (Author) Other; Luis Almeida (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2018 8TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INDUSTRIAL EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (SIES)

Pages: 280-289

8th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES)

Porto, PORTUGAL, JUN 19-21, 2013

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Authenticus ID: P-008-F15

DOI: 10.1109/sies.2013.6601501

Abstract (EN): There is an increasing trend towards using switched Ethernet in real-time distributed systems due to features like absence of collisions and high throughput. Nevertheless, a few problems persist, in particular related to priority inversion and limited length in queues. In this paper we focus on a protocol which uses a master-slave technique over standard switched Ethernet in order to overcome such problems, namely the FTT-SE protocol. We present an improved response time analysis for such a network and we compare, analytically and with simulations, the results achieved with Network Calculus on a worst-case scenario. We show that our proposed response time analysis gives tighter bounds compared to Network Calculus. Moreover, we compare the performance of different solutions to scale the FTT-SE protocol with respect to the bandwidth utilization. Finally, we propose a new architecture to improve the average performance of master-slave switched Ethernet networks.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10