A tight end-to-end delay bound and scheduling optimization of an avionics AFDX network

□ Introduction of Response-Time Analysis of e2e delay upper bound estimation and schedulability criterion. □ Response-Time Analysis leads to a tight upper bound. □ Delay upper bound analysis results in a criterion for optimal scheduling on ES, which is equivalent to the Rate-Monotonic Algorithm. The optimality might not hold for multi-hop networks. □ Simulation results confirm the advantage of the proposed approach.