Flexible Measurement Testbed for Evaluating Time-Sensitive Networking in Industrial Automation Applications
Research output: Contribution to book/Conference proceedings/Anthology/Report › Conference contribution › Contributed › peer-review
Contributors
Abstract
Deterministic communications are required for industrial environments, yet their realization is a challenging task. Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is intended to enable deterministic communication over inexpensive Ethernet networks. Standardized by the IEEE TSN working group, TSN enables precise control of time synchronization, traffic shaping, reliability enhancements, and network administration to answer the demands of industrial control applications. Subsequently, there is a significant need to enable turnkey research and implementation efforts. However, a current lack of open-sourced testbed implementations to investigate and study the behavior of TSN network devices limits verification to simulation and theoretical models. We introduce a publicly available, flexible, and open-sourced measurement testbed for evaluating TSN in the context of industrial automation applications to address the need to perform real-world measurements. In this contribution, we describe our testbed combining Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware and existing open-source tools as a platform for in-depth evaluation of TSN devices. Providing detailed TSN backgrounds, we describe an in-depth performance analysis for our implementation. For a common Tactile Internet scenario, we observe an accuracy of close to 5 ns achievable with our publicly available COTS setup.
Details
Original language | English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization |
Editors | Alexander Clemm, Guido Maier, Carmen Mas Machuca, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Fulvio Risso, Prosper Chemouil, Noura Limam |
Publisher | IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) |
Pages | 402-410 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (electronic) | 9781665406949 |
ISBN (print) | 978-1-6654-0695-6 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2022 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
Title | 2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) |
---|---|
Duration | 27 June - 1 July 2022 |
Location | Milan, Italy |
External IDs
Scopus | 85136788439 |
---|---|
WOS | 000854018800068 |
Mendeley | 3a4c6574-3455-32bb-b58d-3e9bd33aeb8b |
ORCID | /0000-0001-7008-1537/work/142248616 |
ORCID | /0000-0003-0745-2264/work/142254135 |
ORCID | /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/161890956 |
Keywords
Keywords
- Performance evaluation, Automation, Turnkey project, Current measurement, Hardware, Behavioral sciences, Software measurement, IEEE Standards, Measurement, Quality of Service, Testbed, Time-sensitive Networking