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This paper introduces a novel dual-level traffic smoothing technique for hard real-time communication over Fast/Gigabit switched Ethernet without any modification to existing Ethernet hardware. First, the necessary restricted conditions for hard real-time communication over switched Ethernet are analyzed using the network calculus theory. Then the dual-level traffic smoothing scheme, which combines the node-level traffic smoothing with the global-level traffic smoothing, is introduced. Finally, we make thorough measurements and the results show that the dual-level traffic smoothing mechanism can provide very good hard real-time communication performance with low system overheads and has more potential for most hard real-time and embedded control systems than other existing approaches.
This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.90412010.
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Jin, H., Zhang, M., Tan, P. (2006). Dual-Level Traffic Smoothing Technique over Switched Ethernet for Hard Real-Time Communication. In: Levi, A., Savaş, E., Yenigün, H., Balcısoy, S., Saygın, Y. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences – ISCIS 2006. ISCIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4263. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11902140_48
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