A survey of asynchronous remote procedure calls
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Implementing remote procedure calls
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A survey of remote procedure calls
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
performance study of an in-car switched ethernet network without prioritization
Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Communication technologies for vehicles
Challenges in a future IP/ethernet-based in-car network for real-time applications
Proceedings of the 48th Design Automation Conference
Service discovery for mobile Ad Hoc networks: a survey of issues and techniques
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
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Current in-car communication networks are based on automotive specific technologies like CAN, FlexRay and MOST and use proprietary communication protocols. While CAN and FlexRay come with a signal-based communication paradigm, MOST provides a more sophisticated interface based on "function blocks" to the application programmer. In the next years, we expect IP-based protocols and standard technologies like Ethernet to be deployed for more and more in-car communication tasks. As a result, we need an IP-based communication middleware that provides both signaland function-based interaction paradigms and works for all distributed applications in vehicles. Main challenges are the large variety of embedded devices and operating systems used in a single car in terms of footprint and compute power. Furthermore, it must be possible to migrate existing interface definitions from legacy technologies to the new IP-based solution. In this paper, we propose an IP-based in-car middleware framework based on an open source solution, Apache Etch. We sketch how different, yet interoperable versions of the middleware can be used to construct a scalable system that fits to both small and large devices. Finally, we identify extensions to Etch that are necessary to qualify the solution for the use in the automotive domain.