TY - JOUR
T1 - An efficient method for evaluating the end-to-end transmission time reliability of a switched Ethernet
AU - Li, Ruiying
AU - Li, Meinan
AU - Liao, Haitao
AU - Huang, Ning
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61304220) and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (4143064).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/6/15
Y1 - 2017/6/15
N2 - It is common practice to evaluate the end-to-end transmission time reliability of a switched Ethernet by conducting time-consuming tests under normal traffic conditions. This paper presents an efficient test method for a switched Ethernet under fixed payload with Poisson arrival, using a transmission time reliability model developed based on an end-to-end transmission delay analysis. By conducting tests with higher-than-normal frame arrival rates, the unknown parameters, i.e., service rate and fixed delay, of the model can be estimated through the method of moments or the maximum likelihood alternative. Then, the transmission time reliability under the normal frame arrival rate is extrapolated. Our numerical and simulation studies show that the resulting reliability estimates are quite accurate compared to the empirical ones obtained from verification tests. Furthermore, to illustrate the application of our method, a test was conducted using our method on a testbed of the Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX).
AB - It is common practice to evaluate the end-to-end transmission time reliability of a switched Ethernet by conducting time-consuming tests under normal traffic conditions. This paper presents an efficient test method for a switched Ethernet under fixed payload with Poisson arrival, using a transmission time reliability model developed based on an end-to-end transmission delay analysis. By conducting tests with higher-than-normal frame arrival rates, the unknown parameters, i.e., service rate and fixed delay, of the model can be estimated through the method of moments or the maximum likelihood alternative. Then, the transmission time reliability under the normal frame arrival rate is extrapolated. Our numerical and simulation studies show that the resulting reliability estimates are quite accurate compared to the empirical ones obtained from verification tests. Furthermore, to illustrate the application of our method, a test was conducted using our method on a testbed of the Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX).
KW - End-to-end delay
KW - Queueing theory
KW - Reliability evaluation
KW - Statistical inference
KW - Switched Ethernet
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jnca.2017.01.038
DO - 10.1016/j.jnca.2017.01.038
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018819415
SN - 1084-8045
VL - 88
SP - 124
EP - 133
JO - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
JF - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
ER -