TY - GEN
T1 - Flexible Measurement Testbed for Evaluating Time-Sensitive Networking in Industrial Automation Applications
AU - Senk, Stefan
AU - Ulbricht, Marian
AU - Acevedo, Javier
AU - Nguyen, Giang T.
AU - Seeling, Patrick
AU - Fitzek, Frank H.P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2050/1 – Project ID 390696704 – Cluster of Excellence “Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop” (CeTI) of Technische Universität Dresden. We also would like to thank the open-source community for sharing their sophisticated work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - IEEE Standards
KW - Measurement
KW - Quality of Service
KW - Testbed
KW - Time-sensitive Networking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85136788439&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/NetSoft54395.2022.9844050
DO - 10.1109/NetSoft54395.2022.9844050
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85136788439
T3 - Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization: Network Softwarization Coming of Age: New Challenges and Opportunities, NetSoft 2022
SP - 402
EP - 410
BT - Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization
A2 - Clemm, Alexander
A2 - Maier, Guido
A2 - Machuca, Carmen Mas
A2 - Ramakrishnan, K.K.
A2 - Risso, Fulvio
A2 - Chemouil, Prosper
A2 - Limam, Noura
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization, NetSoft 2022
Y2 - 27 June 2022 through 1 July 2022
ER -