RTAI: Real Time Application Interface
Linux Journal
Priority Inheritance Protocols: An Approach to Real-Time Synchronization
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A Measurement-Based Analysis of the Real-Time Performance of Linux
RTAS '02 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'02)
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Performance evaluation of packet capturing systems for high-speed networks
CoNEXT '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM conference on Emerging network experiment and technology
A Time-Optimal Self-Stabilizing Synchronizer Using A Phase Clock
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Evaluation of interrupt handling timeliness in real-time Linux operating systems
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Time-Driven Access and Forwarding in IEEE 802.11 Mesh Networks
MESH '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks
Pipeline forwarding of packets based on a low-accuracy network-distributed common time reference
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Reducing power consumption in backbone networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Comparing and improving current packet capturing solutions based on commodity hardware
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
High speed network traffic analysis with commodity multi-core systems
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
"Time-driven priority" flow control for real-time heterogeneous internetworking
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 1
Scheduling bursts in time-domain wavelength interleaved networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A Distributed End-to-End Reservation Protocol for IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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This paper presents an evaluation of the impact of the so-called operating system (OS) latencies on the performance of a synchronous network based on global time coordination. The concept of end-to-end latency was first defined by extending the concept of latency used to evaluate the performance of real-time systems and the end-to-end latency provided by a general-purpose OS was measured as a benchmark. Finally, real-time techniques were used to reduce the worst-case values of such a latency, showing how a gateway between synchronous and asynchronous networks can be implemented by using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and a proper software stack (based on a real-time version of Linux). The use of a real-time OS is still a nontrivial task, which requires experience and the analysis of the specific application to devise the proper techniques to be applied. This work dissects the problem of OS-to-network data transfer (and vice versa) identifying the key sources of latencies and delay jitter, and solving each problem with the application of a proper technique. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.