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Software-Based Management for Ethernet Networks

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An adequate network management is an essential part for each network permitting to keep the network performance at a suitable level. In this paper, we present our work focusing on an Ethernet network which is used as background interconnection technology for a smart home system in large buildings like tenements or an office block. In this case the network is larger and especially the applications are quite heterogeneous as compared to a private smart home system. Therefore, it is hard to supply a fair and quality of service aware network meeting all the demands. This is especially challenging in the case of an Ethernet network because this technology was intended to use it as a transparent connection system without the feature to support hard quality of service. We present how this problem could be solved by a middleware which best meets the special requirement of the mentioned use case. Finally, we discuss possible design improvements of this solution and present the recent Ethernet standards that could help solve this problem in an alternative way.

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The authors would like to thank the administration and members of “Thueringer Innovationszentrum Mobilitaet” (ThIMo) and the group of researchers “Powertrain - Radio Train” (PORT) for their support and the Thueringer Aufbaubank TAB/ESF for their kind funding.

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  1. Communication Networks Group, Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany

    Markus Hager, Thomas Finke & Jochen Seitz

  2. Communication Networks Group, University of Applied Science Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Thomas Waas

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Hager, M., Finke, T., Seitz, J. et al. Software-Based Management for Ethernet Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 74, 1021–1032 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1341-3

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