Efficient many-to-many real-time communication using an intelligent Ethernet switch

Author

Fan, Xing ; Jonsson, Magnus ; Hoang, Hoai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci., Comput. & Electr. Eng., Halmstad Univ., Sweden

fYear

2004

fDate

10-12 May 2004

Firstpage

280

Lastpage

287

Abstract

This paper presents a solution for efficient many-to-many communication over switched Ethernet. The performance of using an ordinary switch and an intelligent switch is compared, and the results of the analysis based on 100 Mbit/s fast Ethernet show that an intelligent switch used to handle many-to-many communication can give better performance (shorter latency and higher utilization) than an ordinary switch. We also extend the network to serve many-to-many traffic with real-time demands by adding a thin software layer to the intelligent Ethernet switch and the end-nodes. Earliest deadline first (EDF) scheduling is used.

Keywords

local area networks; real-time systems; scheduling; telecommunication switching; telecommunication traffic; 100 Mbit/s; earliest deadline first scheduling; end-nodes; intelligent Ethernet switch; latency; many-to-many real-time communication; many-to-many traffic; software layer addition; Application software; Communication switching; Communication system control; Communication system traffic control; Ethernet networks; Intelligent networks; Job shop scheduling; Parallel processing; Radar signal processing; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks, 2004. Proceedings. 7th International Symposium on

ISSN

1087-4089

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2135-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPAN.2004.1300493

Filename

1300493