Title :
A Stochastic Activity Networks model for the performance evaluation of the KNXnet/IP flow control mechanism
Author :
Cavalieri, Sergio ; Chiacchio, Ferdinando
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Catania, Catania, Italy
Abstract :
KNXnet/IP allows integration of different KNX networks through IP; this is achieved by the use of a particular device called KNXnet/IP Router. Due to the different transmission speeds among KNX network and the IP medium, a flow control mechanism to prevent the congestion of KNXnet/IP Router has been recently foreseen by the standard. In this paper, the authors present some preliminary results about a performance evaluation of the KNXnet/IP flow control mechanism, based on the use of a particular kind of stochastic Petri Nets, called Stochastic Activity Networks (SAN).
Keywords :
IP networks; Petri nets; stochastic processes; telecommunication network routing; KNX networks; KNXnet-IP flow control mechanism; KNXnet-IP router; SAN; performance evaluation; stochastic Petri nets; stochastic activity networks model;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2012 IEEE 17th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Krakow
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4735-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1946-0740
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2012.6489778