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Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.1 ethernet audio/video bridging standard

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Hyung-Taek Lim,

Daniel Herrscher,

Martin Johannes Waltl,

Firas ChaariAuthors Info & Claims

SIMUTOOLS '12: Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Pages 27 - 36

Published: 19 March 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Switched Ethernet is widely used for all kinds of applications. However, for demanding multimedia streaming applications in a fully-loaded network, legacy Ethernet is not the best choice due to its limited Quality-of-Service (QoS) support. The new specification of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) standard, an extension to legacy Ethernet, provides the QoS features needed for multimedia streaming: Time synchronized low latency streaming services and bandwidth reservation on Layer-2. In this work, we study and analyze the AVB standard based on a simulation approach to verify the specified constraints and to determine the feasibility of the mechanisms in a switched Ethernet network. We use the simulation tool OMNeT++ and extend the existing INET-framework to support all the required protocols specified in the IEEE 802.1 AVB standard.

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SIMUTOOLS '12: Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

March 2012

402 pages

ISBN:9781450315104

General Chair:
George Riley
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Program Chairs:
Francesco Quaglia
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
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Jan Himmelspach
University of Rostock, Germany

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Deng LXie GLiu HHan YLi RLi K(2022)A Survey of Real-Time Ethernet Modeling and Design Methodologies: From AVB to TSNACM Computing Surveys10.1145/348733055:2(1-36)Online publication date: 18-Jan-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3487330
Benammar NBauer HRidouard FRichard POuhammou YRidouard FGrolleau EJan MBehnam M(2018)Timing analysis of AVB Ethernet network using the Forward end-to-end Delay AnalysisProceedings of the 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems10.1145/3273905.3273922(223-233)Online publication date: 10-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3273905.3273922
Buschmann SSteinbach TKorf FSchmidt THimmelspach JVanmechelen KCai W(2013)Simulation based timing analysis of FlexRay communication at system levelProceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques10.5555/2512734.2512775(285-290)Online publication date: 5-Mar-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2512734.2512775

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