Title
Fast Real-Time Scheduling for Ethernet-Based Train Control Networks
Abstract
Traditional field bus cannot meet the demand of modern trains that generate increasing amounts of control and diagnostic data. To support these communications with real-time requirements, time-triggered network is a promising technology as real-time frames are transmitted according to a pre-computed schedule. However, a unique challenge for modern trains is dynamic train inauguration, where the pre-computed schedule needs to be reconfigured online due to network topology changes. This paper presents a novel scheduling approach specifically designed for the dynamic schedule generation. The novelty of our approach is two-fold. In contrast to the traditional scheduling approaches that rely on time-consuming solvers to generate schedules offline, our scheduler features efficient heuristics-based algorithms. Moreover, our scheduling algorithm is cognizant of the interdependence between bandwidth and memory constraints in time-triggered network switches with shared buffers. Simulation results show that our scheduling algorithm has better scheduling ability than the myopic approach and SMT-based approach when schedules are required to be generated rapidly for train inauguration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/BDCloud.2018.00085
2018 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Ubiquitous Computing & Communications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Social Computing & Networking, Sustainable Computing & Communications (ISPA/IUCC/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Industrial Ethernet, Real-Time Scheduling, Train Control Networks
Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Network switch,Network topology,Ethernet,Heuristics,Schedule,Industrial Ethernet,Train,Multimedia,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2158-9178
978-1-7281-1141-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qinghan Yu131.78
Wang Tian21715.16
Xi-Bin Zhao329030.98
Hai Wang41911.58
Yue Gao530.74
Chenyang Lu66474385.38
Ming Gu755474.82