Towards Cost-Effective Real-Time High-Throughput End Station Design for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)

Chuanyu Xue; Tianyu Zhang; Song Han

doi:10.1145/3649329.3658260

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Towards Cost-Effective Real-Time High-Throughput End Station Design for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)

Chuanyu Xue, Tianyu Zhang and Song Han

Proceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, pp.1-6

ACM Conferences

DAC '24: 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference

06/23/2024

DOI: 10.1145/3649329.3658260

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Abstract

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) technology has been increasingly deployed in mission- and safety-critical industrial applications to achieve high throughput and deterministic communications. To provide stringent timing guarantee, TSN requires that network devices follow a predefined communication schedule for real-time end-to-end packet processing, involving both TSN bridges and end stations. Extensive efforts have been devoted on the TSN bridge design in the literature. Achieving TSN compatibility on the end stations (especially on COTS hardware), however is challenging due to their constrained resources. To fill this gap, this work presents a software-based open-source TSN end station design that i) enables ultra-low latency and nanosecond-level transmission accuracy based on DPDK, and ii) employs a novel multi-core scheduling framework to boost the throughput of real-time TSN traffic. Our proposed solution leverages existing COTS hardware and thus is more generic and cost-effective compared to existing hardware-centric solutions. We validate our design by developing a prototype end station and incorporating it in a real-world TSN testbed. Our extensive experiments demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our design compared with other state-of-the-art solutions.

Computer systems organization

Computer systems organization -- Embedded and cyber-physical systems

Computer systems organization -- Embedded and cyber-physical systems -- Embedded systems

Computer systems organization -- Embedded and cyber-physical systems -- Sensor networks

Computer systems organization -- Real-time systems

Hardware

Hardware -- Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

Hardware -- Communication hardware, interfaces and storage -- Networking hardware

Networks

Networks -- Network architectures

Networks -- Network architectures -- Network design principles

Networks -- Network types

Networks -- Network types -- Cyber-physical networks

Networks -- Network types -- Network on chip

Details

Title: Subtitle: Towards Cost-Effective Real-Time High-Throughput End Station Design for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)
Creators: Chuanyu Xue - University of Connecticut
Tianyu Zhang - University of Connecticut
Song Han - University of Connecticut
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: Proceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, pp.1-6
Conference: DAC '24: 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Publisher: ACM
Series: ACM Conferences
DOI: 10.1145/3649329.3658260
Language: English
Date published: 06/23/2024
Academic Unit: Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984745355402771

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