A risk metric for designing a highly reliable real-time Ethernet network

The recent developments of industrial Ethernet are brushing aside people's doubt whether industrial Ethernet could fulfill all of their requirements to real-time performance and reliability. Although designing a highly reliable network with strict real-time constraints is becoming possible, no...

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Published in2009 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Lei Zhang, Lehmann, R., Zhi Wang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2009
Subjects
Automation
Electrical equipment industry
Ethernet networks
IEC standards
Industrial control
Protocols
Real time systems
Redundancy
Switches
Telecommunication network reliability
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ISBN9781424427277
1424427274
ISSN1946-0740
DOI10.1109/ETFA.2009.5347215

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Summary:The recent developments of industrial Ethernet are brushing aside people's doubt whether industrial Ethernet could fulfill all of their requirements to real-time performance and reliability. Although designing a highly reliable network with strict real-time constraints is becoming possible, no method has been proposed to help network design systematically considering reliability and real-time constraints. A risk metric is proposed in this paper for evaluating the relationship between reliability mechanisms of an industrial Ethernet network and its real time performance. By simulation of an example network with ring topology the metric is shown to be a suitable basis for effective network optimization.
ISBN:9781424427277
1424427274
ISSN:1946-0740
DOI:10.1109/ETFA.2009.5347215