Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Marcel Kiessling

Jürgen Schmitt

An Ninh Nguyen

Franz-Josef Götz

Feng Chen

Joachim Lohmeyer

Frank Volkmann

Stephan Höme

Thomas Fischer

Sven Kerschbaum

Konstantin Jung

A method of scheduling traffic in a network node is provided. A cyclic traffic schedule for a first traffic class, such as a first real time traffic class, includes a reception phase and a transmission phase. The method includes setting the transmission phase (T) of the network node to coincide with the reception phase of at least two neighboring network nodes.

Scheduling of data traffic

The invention describes a transmission device having a (TCP/IP) protocol stack (S, S'), which is designed for the transmission of data (D) in a time-sensitive network (TSN). The transmission device comprises at least one TSN-compliant virtual Ethernet interface (&#x2032;) and an associated TSN control unit (&#x2032;). The at least one TSN-compliant virtual Ethernet interface (&#x2032;) is designed to send and/or receive a TSN-compliant data stream (&#x2032;) in a physical layer () of the TCP/IP protocol stack (S, S&#x2032;). The TSN-compliant data stream (&#x2032;) can be configured and/or parameterised by means of the associated TSN control unit (&#x2032;).

Data transmission in time-sensitive data networks

The invention relates to methods and to a device for the modular orientation of an AVB stream. The introduction of a new attribute (L_BRIDGE) into the reservation protocol that has been further developed for TSN allows to better use the existing mechanisms in the Ethernet Standard. To this end, each receiver and each transmitter has to announce himself in the network (already existing for the transmitters).

Method and device for the modular orientation of an AVB stream

Sensors of a control system transmit detected cyclical actual states of a technical industrial process to a common central unit via a first protected connection of a first open communication network once within a specified time window. The central unit transmits cyclical control signals commensurate with the actual states to multiple actuators via a second protected connection of a second open communication network once within the specified time window. Each sensor supplies the actual state detected by the sensor to the first open communication network within a respective transmitter-side sub-region within the time window. The central unit receives the transmitted actual states within a respective corresponding receiver-side sub-region within the time window. The transmitter-side sub-regions of the sensors are specified such that the receiver-side sub-regions are disjointed from one another.

Sum stream for actual states and control signals of a distributed control system

The invention relates to a method and to a device that describe a real-time network plan for industrial control and monitoring applications, wherein standard Ethernet switching elements are used for the communication network, in particular on the basis of the new mechanisms according to the IEEE 802.1 TSN Task Group. The sequence plan combines clocked data transfer with the stream reservation concept and thus provides determinism with guaranteed maximum latency and access controls at runtime.

Method for performant data transmission in a data network with, in part, real-time requirements and apparatus for carrying out the method

The disclosure relates to a method and device for time-controlled data transmission in a TSN. A new traffic shaping method is described for time-sensitive data streams. The objective is to offer the same real-time performance and configuration complexity as in the prior art but without the need for time synchronization throughout the entire network. The traffic shaper provides that a data frame that is received by a bridge in a first-time interval is passed by this bridge to the next hop/bridge in the next time interval. Each bridge knows the start time of the time interval that belongs to a particular data stream. Each data frame must contain a so-called 'delay value,' thus a delay value which is measured by each bridge using a local clock that measures the delay time spent by the data frame in the queue at the outgoing port.

Method and device for time-controlled data transmission in a time-sensitive network

Method for transmitting data in a communication network of an industrial automation system and coupling communication device wherein in order to transmit data in a communication network of the industrial automation system, first data frames including control data for the automation system are transmitted by coupling communication devices of the communication network only within periodic first intervals of time, where second data frames, which are assigned to data streams comprising sequences of data frames, and/or third data frames, for the transmission of which no quality of service or a quality of service below a predefined threshold value is stipulated, are transmitted within periodic second intervals of time, the first intervals of time are subdivided into first and second sub-intervals, and where first data frames which are to be forwarded are inserted into a first and a second queue in alternating sub-intervals and are alternately removed from the queues for forwarding.

Method for transmitting data in a communication network of an industrial automation system and coupling communication device

A redundantly operable industrial communication system having a plurality of communication devices redundantly linked to an industrial communication network within a ring or tree topology, and a plurality of communication devices inter connected within a linear topology, wherein a communication device configured as a ring portion redundancy manager within the linear topology comprises a monitoring and control unit that detects an interruption within the linear topology using transmitted test messages and controls forwarding of messages containing useful data between two ports, associated with the linear topology, of the communication device configured as a ring portion redundancy manager when an interruption is detected, and first and second communication devices return test messages received within the linear topology to the communication device configured as a ring portion redundancy manager or send test messages to the communication device configured as the ring portion redundancy manager.

Redundantly operable industrial communication system, communication device and method for redundantly operating an industrial communication system

A method for transmitting messages in a redundantly operable communication network which includes a first subnetwork with a tree topology and a second subnetwork, wherein messages are transmitted in the first subnetwork in accordance with a spanning tree protocol. Here, communication devices associated with network nodes of the first subnetwork interchange messages containing topology information with one another to form a tree topology, messages are transmitted in the second subnetwork in accordance with a parallel or ring redundancy protocol, communication devices associated with network nodes of the second subnetwork interchange messages containing topology information for the first subnetwork with one another in accordance with the parallel or ring redundancy protocol and compare the messages with locally available topology information for the first subnetwork, and communication devices associated with network nodes of the second subnetwork determine resultant topology information for the first subnetwork based on a comparison result.

Communication device and method for transmitting messages in a redundantly operable industrial communication network

A method for transmitting messages in a redundantly operable communication network includes a first subnetwork with a tree topology and a second subnetwork, wherein messages are transmitted in the first subnetwork in accordance with a spanning tree protocol, communication devices associated with network nodes of the first subnetwork interchange messages containing topology information with one another in order to form a tree topology, messages are transmitted in the second subnetwork in accordance with a parallel or ring redundancy protocol, and a virtual network node which is connected to all network nodes of the second subnetwork via a respective virtual connection which is uninterruptable by an error is configured as the root network node of the first subnetwork.

Method for transmitting messages in a redundantly operable industrial communication network and communication device for the redundantly operable industrial communication network

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Marcel Kiessling