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The Design and Implementation of a Simulator for Switched Ethernet Networks

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Authors: Mohammad Ashjaei, Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte
Source: 3rd International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS'12), Pisa, Italy
 

Abstract

In the context of Switched Ethernet, the Flexible Time-Triggered Switched Ethernet protocol (FTT-SE) was proposed to overcome the limitations and related problems of using COTS switches in real-time networks, such as overflow of switch queues due to uncontrolled arrival of packets. Although the FTT-SE protocol has been validated by several experiments on real applications, evaluation of different architectures as well as evaluation of large scale networks is not straightforward. Therefore, a simulator to evaluate different network architectures based on the FTT-SE protocol is useful. In this paper we present such a simulator. We address the extended FTT-SE protocol using multiple switches and we present a modular simulator based on Simulink/Matlab to visualize message transmissions and to evaluate end-to-end delay bounds of messages.
 

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{Ashjaei_2893:2012,
   author = {Mohammad Ashjaei and Moris Behnam and Thomas Nolte},
   title = {The Design and Implementation of a Simulator for Switched Ethernet Networks},
   booktitle = {3rd International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS'12)},
   month = {July},
   year = {2012},
   url = {http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/index.php?choice=publications&id=2893},
}

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