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A Survey on Safety-Critical Multicast Networking

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This paper presents the results of an in-depth survey [9] into the concept of a generic safety-critical network technology. We identify a need for an architecture that would provide a number of distributed services (such as membership, clock synchronization etc.) generically. Such a technology would not only exploit the benefits of software reuse, but would also eliminate a substantial part of the complexity (including the scope for error) from the design process. We first discuss the main results of this survey, namely the requisite properties of such a technology before giving a detailed definition of an arbitrary “safety-critical network”. This section also considers the OSI reference model and gives reasons as to why it is not suitable for use in a hard real-time system. As exemplars, we describe a number of related networking technologies, namely, TTP, PROFIBUS and CAN. The paper is concluded with a discussion concerning the future direction of this research.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, UK

    James S. Pascoe & R. J. Loader

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  1. Safety Science Group, TU Delft, Jaffalaan 5, 2628, BX Delft, The Netherlands

    Floor Koornneef

  2. SIMTECH, Max Euwelaan 60, 3062, MA Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Meine van der Meulen

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Pascoe, J.S., Loader, R.J. (2000). A Survey on Safety-Critical Multicast Networking. In: Koornneef, F., van der Meulen, M. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability and Security. SAFECOMP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1943. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40891-6_29

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