Fault tolerant Ethernet network model for control and entertainment in railway transportation systems

Author

Hassan, M. ; Gamal, S. ; Louis, S.N. ; Zaki, G.F. ; Amer, H.H.

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., American Univ. in Cairo, Cairo

fYear

2008

fDate

4-7 May 2008

Abstract

In this paper, simulations are run to study the performance of a fault tolerant control system over a single gigabit Ethernet network used in train wagons. The network is assumed to carry control data as well as additional entertainment traffic. The network consists of a Controller handling the sensor-to-actuator data and another Entertainment Server carrying video and Internet application packets. Fault-tolerance is introduced by reallocating loads in case of controller failure. Additionally, various qualities for the entertainment traffic carried by the network are used. OPNET was used to estimate the maximum allowable entertainment traffic that can be added to satisfy real-time sensor-to-actuator packet end-to-end delay constraints.

Keywords

control engineering computing; entertainment; fault tolerant computing; optical fibre LAN; railway communication; railway engineering; telecommunication traffic; transportation; Internet; OPNET; entertainment traffic estimation; fault tolerant control system; load reallocation; railway transportation system; sensor-to-actuator data handling; single gigabit Ethernet network; Communication system traffic control; Control system synthesis; Delay estimation; Ethernet networks; Fault tolerant systems; IP networks; Network servers; Rail transportation; Traffic control; Web server; Fault Tolerant Control; Gigabit Ethernet in Control; Networked Control Systems; Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008. CCECE 2008. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Niagara Falls, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1642-4

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564640

Filename

4564640