Switched Real-Time Ethernet and Earliest Deadline First Scheduling - Protocols and Traffic Handling

Authors:
Hoai Hoang;Magnus Jonsson;Ulrik Hagström;Anders Kallerdahl
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Year:
2002

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Abstract

There is a strong interest of using the cheap and simple Ethernet technology for industrial and embedded systems. This far, however, the lack of real-time services has prevented this change of used network technology. This paper presents enhancements to full-duplex switched Ethernet for the ability of giving throughput and delay guarantees. The switch and the end-nodes controls the real-time traffic with Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling on the frame level. No modification to the Ethernet standard is needed in the network that supports both real-time and non-real-time TCP/IP communication. The switch is responsible for admission control where feasibility analysis is made for each link between source and destination. The switch broadcasts Ethernet frames regularly to clock synchronize the end nodes and to implement flow control for non-real-time traffic.