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Comparing Admission Control Architectures for Real-Time Ethernet

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Authors:

Ines Alvarez, Luís Moutinho , Paulo Pedreiras , Daniel Bujosa Mateu, Julián Proenza , Luis Almeida

Publication Type:

Journal article

Venue:

Journal of IEEE Access

Publisher:

IEEE

DOI:

10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2999817


Abstract

Industry 4.0 and Autonomous Driving are emerging resource-intensive distributed application domains that deal with open and evolving environments. These systems are subject to stringent resource, timing, and other non-functional constraints, as well as frequent reconfiguration. Thus, real-time behavior must not preclude operational flexibility. This combination is motivating ongoing efforts within the Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) standardization committee to define admission control mechanisms for Ethernet. Existing mechanisms in TSN, like those of AVB, its predecessor, follow a distributed architecture that favors scalability. Conversely, the new mechanisms envisaged for TSN (IEEE 802.1Qcc) follow a (partially) centralized architecture, favoring short reconfiguration latency. This paper shows the first quantitative comparison between distributed and centralized admission control architectures concerning reconfiguration latency. Here, we compare AVB against a dynamic real-time reconfigurable Ethernet technology with centralized management, namely HaRTES. Our experiments show a significantly lower latency using the centralized architecture. We also observe the dependence of the distributed architecture in the end nodes' performance and the benefit of having a protected channel for the admission control transactions.

Bibtex

@article{Alvarez5987,
author = {Ines Alvarez and Lu{\'\i}s Moutinho and Paulo Pedreiras and Daniel Bujosa Mateu and Juli{\'a}n Proenza and Luis Almeida},
title = {Comparing Admission Control Architectures for Real-Time Ethernet},
volume = {2},
number = {1},
pages = {105521--105534},
journal = {Journal of IEEE Access},
publisher = {IEEE},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/5987-}
}