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Synthesising Schedules to Improve QoS of Best-effort Traffic in TSN Networks

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Conference/Workshop Paper

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29th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS'21)


Abstract

The IEEE Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) standards' amendment 802.1Qbv provides real-time guarantees for Scheduled Traffic (ST) streams by the Time Aware Shaper (TAS) mechanism. In this paper, we develop offline schedule optimization objective functions to configure the TAS for ST streams, which can be effective to achieve a high Quality of Service (QoS) of lower priority Best-Effort (BE) traffic. This becomes useful if real-time streams from legacy protocols are configured to be carried by the BE class or if the BE class is used for value-added (but non-critical) services. We present three alternative objective functions, namely Maximization, Sparse and Evenly Sparse, followed by a set of constraints on ST streams. Based on simulated stream traces in OMNeT++/INET TSN NeSTiNg simulator, we compare our proposed schemes with a most commonly applied objective function in terms of overall maximum end-to-end delay and deadline misses of BE streams. The results confirm that changing the schedule synthesis objective to our proposed schemes ensures timely delivery and lower end-to-end delays in BE streams.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Houtan6159,
author = {Bahar Houtan and Mohammad Ashjaei and Masoud Daneshtalab and Mikael Sj{\"o}din and Saad Mubeen},
title = {Synthesising Schedules to Improve QoS of Best-effort Traffic in TSN Networks},
month = {April},
year = {2021},
booktitle = {29th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS'21)},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/6159-}
}