• DocumentCode
    2573718
  • Title

    Precision of ethernet measurements based on software tools

  • Author

    Schafer, Iwan ; Felser, Max

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Technol., Berne Univ. of Appl. Sci., Burgdorf, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    25-28 Sept. 2007
  • Firstpage
    510
  • Lastpage
    515
  • Abstract
    The use of Ethernet based solutions in automation applications raises the question of test tools. Free tools like Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, are available and offer decoding of real-time Ethernet like PROFINET IO. But is such a software based tool able to measure the required real-time constraints? What are the limits of such software based measurements? This report gives an overview of possible measurement setups and a choice of measured benchmarks.
  • Keywords
    field buses; local area networks; software tools; Ethernet measurements precision; PROFINET IO; software based measurements; software based tool; Application software; Chromium; Communication switching; Decoding; Ethernet networks; Jitter; Software measurement; Software tools; Switches; Telecommunication traffic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2007. ETFA. IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Patras
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0825-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416812
  • Filename
    4416812