Abstract

Till Steinbach, Franz Korf, Thomas C. Schmidt,
Comparing Time-Triggered Ethernet with FlexRay: An Evaluation of Competing Approaches to Real-time for In-Vehicle Networks,
In: 8th IEEE Intern. Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2010), pp. 199--202, Piscataway, NJ, USA:IEEE Press, May 2010.
[BibTeX][abstract]

Abstract: FlexRay is considered the next generation state-of-theart technology for in-car networks, while time-triggered Ethernet emerges with the promise to integrate real-time and best-effort traffic into one homogeneous backbone. This paper contributes a competitive analysis of FlexRay and time-triggered Ethernet. By showing that it is possible to transfer a fully utilized FlexRay system, to a system based on time-triggered Ethernet, it is demonstrated that time-triggered Ethernet is a suitable replacement of current in-vehicle bus-systems. Further it is shown that a switched system has advantages in bandwidth utilization over a shared bus, when using group communication.

Note: {\em Best WIP Paper Award}

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