Inter-Stream Dependencies in Time-Sensitive Networking
2025 (English)In: Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks, ICIN / [ed] Paganelli F., Rojas E., Mitton N., Naboulsi D., Borsatti D., Rovedakis S., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025, p. 107-114Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Effective configuration of Time-Sensitive Networks is crucial for providing timeliness and reliability guarantees for real-time industrial applications, where many inter-dependent streams may co-exist. However, existing methods for specifying the characteristics of real-time streams to the Centralized Network Configuration element (CNC) do not allow the specification of stream dependencies. Consequently, the CNC may schedule the real-time streams in a sub-optimal way, leading to low number of real-time applications supported. To address this pressing issue, we present methods that allow to model and express such inter-stream dependencies and propose extensions to the user network interface (UNI) to convey these dependencies to the CNC, transforming it into an intent-based UNI. We define a novel metric to evaluate a specific network configuration regarding the latency budget available for scheduling the transmission of a stream. Using a set of numerical simulations, we show that when exploiting the knowledge of inter-stream dependencies, we can derive better network schedules, which results in significant increase in applications onboarding up to 2.2x and increased network utilization for real-time streams up to 3x.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025. p. 107-114
Keywords [en]
Centralized networks, Inter-stream dependency, Network configuration, Network optimization, Real-time streams, Reliability guarantee, Time sensitive networking, Timeliness and reliability, User network interface, Budget control
National Category
Computer Sciences
Research subject
Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-104742DOI: 10.1109/ICIN64016.2025.10943101Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105002724400ISBN: 9798331542399 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-104742DiVA, id: diva2:1964340
Conference
28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks, ICIN, Paris, France, March 11-14, 2025.
2025-06-042025-06-042026-02-12Bibliographically approved