2018/04/29 by Yuming Jiang, Jiang, Yuming
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Network Time Synchronization Technologies #Network Traffic and Congestion Control #Performance (cs.PF) #Software-Defined Networks and 5G
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.10973
openalex publication_date 2018/04/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Deterministic Networking (DetNet) are emerging standards to enable deterministic, delay-critical communication in such networks. This naturally (re-)calls attention to the network calculus theory (NC), since a rich set of results for delay guarantee analysis have already been developed there. One could anticipate an immediate adoption of those existing network calculus results to TSN and DetNet. However, the fundamental difference between the traffic specification adopted in TSN and DetNet and those traffic models in NC makes this difficult, let alone that there is a long-standing open challenge in NC. To address them, this paper considers an arrival time function based max-plus NC traffic model. In particular, for the former, the mapping between the TSN / DetNet and the NC traffic model is proved. For the latter, the superposition property of the arrival time function based NC traffic model is found and proved. Appealingly, the proved superposition property shows a clear analogy with that of a well-known counterpart traffic model in NC. These results help make an important step towards the development of a system theory for delay guarantee analysis of TSN / DetNet networks.