Analysis of Time-Sensitive Networks for Mission-Critical Systems

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) enhances Ethernet with features such as time synchronization, scheduled traffic, policing, and redundancy to enable highly deterministic and reliable communications in mission-critical systems. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to the configuration, analysis, and verification of TSN for critical systems, with a focus on time-sensitive applications such as tank barrel stabilization. The impact of different types of topologies, traffic types, and application requirements on the configuration complexity are presented along with various mathematical techniques to generate network solutions and verify against the system requirements. Detailed modeling, configuration, and analysis of TSN is demonstrated using a representative mixed criticality converged network. Lastly, configuration techniques to minimize the latency, jitter, and frame loss while maximizing the network utilization are presented.