The Time-Triggered Ethernet (TTE) Design 时间触发以太网（TTE）设计.pdfVIP

The Time-Triggered Ethernet (TTE) Design Hermann Kopetz Astrit Ademaj Petr Grillinger Klaus Steinhammer Vienna University of Technology Real-Time Systems Group Treitlstr. 3/182-1, A-1040 Vienna, Austria email:hk,ademaj,grilling,klaus@vmars.tuwien.ac.at Abstract implemented TTP/C on a COTS Gigabit Ethernet. Due to the unpredictable nature of the COTS Ethernet switch This paper presents the rational for and an outline of the we could only achieve a disappointing resource utilization design of a time-triggered (TT) Ethernet that unifies real- [23, 6]. Based on the experience of this project and of indus- time and non-real-time traffic into a single coherent com- trial TTP applications in the aerospace domain, the railway munication architecture. TT Ethernet is intended to sup- domain, and the automotive domain we have looked into the port all types of applications, from simple data acquisition possibility of providing a novel unified communication ar- systems, to multimedia systems up to the most demand- chitecture based on Ethernet that meets the requirements of ing safety-critical real-time control systems which require a all types of non-real-time, real-time, and multimedia appli- fault-tolerant communication service that must be certified. cations up to the most demanding safety-critical real-time TT Ethernet distinguishes between two traffic categories: products, while still maintaining full compatibility with the the standard event-triggered Ethernet traffic and the time- existing Eth