Message Scheduling for the FlexRay Protocol: The Static Segment

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2009-06-01

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Schmidt, Klaus Verner
Schmidt, Şenan Ece

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In recent years, time-triggered communication protocols have been developed to support time-critical applications for in-vehicle communication. In this respect, the FlexRay protocol is likely to become the de facto standard. In this paper, we investigate the scheduling problem of periodic signals in the static segment of FlexRay. We identify and solve two subproblems and introduce associated performance metrics: 1) The signals have to be packed into equal-size messages to obey the restrictions of the FlexRay protocol, while using as little bandwidth as possible. To this end, we formulate a nonlinear integer programming (NIP) problem to maximize bandwidth utilization. Furthermore, we employ the restrictions of the FlexRay protocol to decompose the NIP and compute the optimal message set efficiently. 2) A message schedule has to be determined such that the periodic messages are transmitted with minimum jitter. For this purpose, we propose an appropriate software architecture and derive an integer linear programming (ILP) problem that both minimizes the jitter and the bandwidth allocation. A case study based on a benchmark signal set illustrates our results.

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Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48330

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1109/tvt.2008.2008654

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K. V. Schmidt and Ş. E. Schmidt, “Message Scheduling for the FlexRay Protocol: The Static Segment,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, pp. 2170–2179, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48330.