Voica Maria Gavrilut: Our society is increasingly digitalized, with computers controlling many systems in areas that may endanger human life or the environment (e.g., airplanes, factories).
A large part of the
communication within and among these safety
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critical systems is done
via wired networks.
Engineers are currently working to standardize features in Ethernet that provide services
needed in safety critical systems. Specifically, the IEEE
Time
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Sensitive Networ
king
(TSN)
group works to
provide reliability and timeliness
services by extending Ethernet. The
methods to design such a safety
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related network are characterized by high complexity and
intense software and hardware utilization.
The increased complexity in safety
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critical systems
is supported by the use of Computer
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Aided Design (CAD) tools.
In this thesis,
we have
developed methods
and tools to
decrease the monetary and implementation cost of the
TSN
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based systems
while ensuring the
application
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specific critical properties, such as timeliness,
reliability or fault
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to
lerance. The proposed methods were
evaluated on
real
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world
use cases
from areas such as aerospace and automotive.
The developed tools can be used
by both
industrial and academic
end-users.
Supervisors: Paul Pop, Christian D. Jensen
Published as report: Design Optimization of IEEE Time-Sensitive Networks (TSN)for Safety-Critical Real-Time Applications