Designing, Modelling and Evaluating Switched Ethernet Networks in Factory Communication Systems
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The Ethernet network is increasingly used for the industrial communications which are strongly timeconstrained. This paper presents both a method (based on the genetic algorithms) to design switched Ethernet architectures and a method (based on the network calculus) to evaluate these network architectures in term of maximum end-to-end delay.
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