• Feb 07, 2023 News!JACN will adopt Article-by-Article Work Flow. The benefit of article-by-article workflow is that a delay with one article may not delay the entire issue. Once a paper steps into production, it will be published online soon.   [Click]
  • May 30, 2022 News!JACN Vol.10, No.1 has been published with online version.   [Click]
  • Dec 24, 2021 News!Volume 9 No 1 has been indexed by EI (inspec)!   [Click]
General Information
    • ISSN: 1793-8244 (Print)
    • Abbreviated Title:  J. Adv. Comput. Netw.
    • Frequency: Semiyearly
    • DOI: 10.18178/JACN
    • Editor-in-Chief: Professor Haklin Kimm
    • Executive Editor: Ms. Cherry Chan
    • Abstracting/ Indexing: EBSCO, ProQuest, and Google Scholar.
    • E-mail: jacn@ejournal.net
Editor-in-chief
Professor Haklin Kimm
East Stroudsburg University, USA
I'm happy to take on the position of editor in chief of JACN. We encourage authors to submit papers on all aspects of computer networks.

JACN 2014 Vol.2(1): 48-57 ISSN: 1793-8244
DOI: 10.7763/JACN.2014.V2.81

Mode-Based Scheduling with Fast Mode-Signaling ― A Method for Efficient Usage of Network Time Slots

Tobias Braun, Reinhard Gotzhein, and Thomas Kuhn

Abstract—Today, communication in real-time systems is based on time-triggered or event-triggered protocols, or combinations thereof. Each of these solutions has its benefits and tradeoffs regarding timeliness and bandwidth usage. In this work, we present a new method called mode-based slot scheduling with fast mode-signaling, which can substantially improve bandwidth usage in many scenarios of industrial relevance, while preserving timeliness. With mode-based slot scheduling, a well-controlled amount of dynamic contention for network time slots is possible. Fast mode-signaling is used to reach consensus on the current transmission mode with the highest preference extremely fast and reliably among all network nodes. We present the implementation of our method with TTCAN – a time-triggered protocol in the automotive domain –, and evaluation results.

Index Terms—Mode-based slot scheduling, fast mode-signaling, TDMA, slot assignment, TTCAN.

T. Braun and R. Gotzhein are with the Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany (e-mail: tbraun©cs.uni-kl.de, gotzhein©cs.uni-kl.de).
T. Kuhn is with the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany (e-mail: Thomas.kuhn@iese.fraunhofer.de).

[PDF]

Cite:Tobias Braun, Reinhard Gotzhein, and Thomas Kuhn, "Mode-Based Scheduling with Fast Mode-Signaling ― A Method for Efficient Usage of Network Time Slots," Journal of Advances in Computer Networks vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 48-57, 2014.

Copyright © 2008-2024. Journal of Advances in Computer Networks.  All rights reserved.
E-mail: jacn@ejournal.net