ziqbal.bib

@inproceedings{IQBAL_SIES_2012,
  author = {Iqbal, Z. and Almeida, L. and Marau, R. and Behnam, M. and Nolte, T.},
  title = {Implementing hierarchical scheduling on COTS Ethernet switches using a master/slave approach},
  booktitle = {7th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES'2012) Proceedings},
  year = {2012},
  editor = {},
  volume = {},
  series = {},
  pages = {76--84},
  address = {Karlsruhe, Germany},
  month = {June},
  organization = {},
  publisher = {},
  doi = {10.1109/SIES.2012.6356572},
  issn = {},
  isbn = {978-1-4673-2683-4},
  keywords = {Real-Time communications, FTT, Ethernet, FTT-SE},
  note = {},
  key = {},
  abstract = {Hierarchical scheduling is instrumental to efficiently deploy component-based designs and achieve composability. It allows partitioning resources into multiple levels, hiding the complexity within each partition behind its respective interface. In this paper we focus on the network resource, particularly on Ethernet using ordinary COTS switches, and we show how hierarchical scheduling can be efficiently deployed using a master/slave approach that enforces the temporal properties of the partitions. We use the FTT-SE protocol for being open source and a bandwidth efficient master/slave alternative currently available for real-time communication over Ethernet. We present a response-time analysis for the traffic submitted within each partition and we validate it using experimental results obtained from a prototype implementation. In particular, the results highlight the strong partitioning capabilities of our approach, with full temporal isolation across partitions in different branches of the hierarchy}
}

@inproceedings{MARAU_WFCS_2012,
  author = {Marau, R. and Behnam, M. and Iqbal, Z. and Silva, P. and Almeida, L. and Portugal, P.},
  title = {Controlling multi-switch networks for prompt reconfiguration},
  booktitle = {9th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS'2012) Proceedings},
  year = {2012},
  editor = {},
  volume = {},
  series = {},
  pages = {233--242},
  address = {Lemgo, Germany},
  month = {May},
  organization = {},
  publisher = {},
  doi = {10.1109/WFCS.2012.6242571},
  issn = {},
  isbn = {978-1-4673-0693-5},
  keywords = {Real-Time communications, FTT, Ethernet, FTT-SE},
  note = {},
  key = {},
  abstract = {Recent trends in distributed embedded systems, such as those found in avionics and trains, have shown an increase in the amount and heterogeneity of the information that needs to be exchanged, together with a growing importance of supporting dynamic reconfiguration and adaptive behaviors. In this paper we focus on Ethernet technologies with real-time reconfiguration support and we address the case of middle-size networking infrastructures with a few switches. We use the FTT-SE protocol with the needed adaptations to support dynamic heterogeneous real-time transactions in multi-hop networks. The paper presents a worst-case response-time analysis that provides timeliness guarantees, improving the results obtained with another previous analysis, decreasing the needed network capacity for guaranteed schedulability by 25% on average. Practical experiments and simulation results validate the proposed approach and analysis}
}

@inproceedings{BEHNAM_WCTT_2011,
  author = {Behnam, M. and Iqbal, Z. and Silva, P. and Marau, R. and Almeida, L. and Portugal, P.},
  title = {Engineering and Analyzing Multi-Switch Networks with Single Point of Control},
  booktitle = {1st International Workshop on Worst-case Traversal Time (WCTT'2011) Proceedings},
  year = {2011},
  editor = {},
  volume = {},
  series = {},
  pages = {},
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  month = {November},
  organization = {},
  publisher = {},
  doi = {},
  issn = {},
  isbn = {},
  keywords = {Real-Time communications, FTT, FTT-SE, Ethernet, Embedded systems},
  note = {},
  key = {},
  abstract = {Recent trends in distributed embedded systems have shown an increase in the amount and heterogeneity of the information that needs to be exchanged, together with a growing importance of supporting dynamic reconfiguration and adaptive behaviors. In this paper we focus on Ethernet technology and we address the case of middle-size networking infrastructure with a few switches. We use the FTT-SE protocol to support dynamic heterogeneous real-time transactions with temporal isolation and we propose the needed scheduling adaptations to support multi-hop network configurations. The paper also includes a companion worst-case response-time analysis that allows verifying the timeliness of the system}
}