• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.691-694
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• 2003

This paper describes how to use Profibus networks to support real-time industrial communications, that is, how to ensure the transmission of real-time messages within a maximum bound time. Profibus is based on a simplified timed token protocol, which is a well-proved solution for the real-time communication systems. However, Profibus differs from the timed token protocol, thus the usual timed token protocol has to be modified in order to be applied in Profibus. In fact, the real-time solutions for networks based on the timed token protocol rely on the possibility of allocating specific bandwidth for the real-time traffic. This means that a minimum amount of time to transmit the real-time messages is always guaranteed whenever each token is arrived. In other words, with the Profibus protocol, at least, one real-time message should be transmitted per every token visit in the worst case. It is required to control medium access properly to satisfy the message deadlines. In this paper, we have presented how to obtain the optimal network parameter for the Profibus protocol. The selected network parameter is valid regardless of the behavior of asynchronous messages.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.57.2-57
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• 2001

Timed token protocols inadequately provide periodic communication service, although this is crucial for hard real time systems. We propose an approach to guaranteeing periodic communication service on a timed token protocol network. In this approach, we allocate bandwidth to each node so that the summation of bandwidth allocations is Target Token Rotation Time (TTRT). If a node cannot consume the allocated time, the residual time can be used by other nodes for non-periodic service using a timer which contains the unused time value and is appended to the token. This approach can always guarantee transmission of real-time messages before their deadlines when the network utilization is less than 50%.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.518-528
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• 2000

Messages in distributed real-time systems are categorized into two groups: synchronous messages and asynchronous messages. Synchronous messages, such as sampled audio and image data,are generated periodically with delivery time constraints. Protocols should guarantee the end-to-enddeadlines for such messages. Asynchronous messages are non-periodic and may arrive in a randomway with no strict time constraints.In this paper, we propose TTP/C(timed token protocol with concession), an extension of TTPprotocol, to achieve higher timeliness guarantee for synchronous messages in distributed real-timesystems. In TTP/C, a node concedes the allocated bandwidth to other nodes with urgent synchronousmessages to be sent provided that the node has no urgent messages, TTP/C works very well evenif the synchronous messages are generated with some jittering by nodes. The simulation results showthe improved performance of TTP/C protocol for guaranteeing synchronous messages deadlinescomeared to the existing TTP protocols.