RTnet: a distributed real-time protocol for broadcast-capable networks

摘要

We present an overview of a distributed real-time network protocol, to be used on fully-connected local area networks with a broadcast capability. It supports on-the-fly addition and removal of network nodes, resource-lavish and resource-lean devices, streaming real-time and regular non-real-time traffic. Both the design and the operation are presented, together with results from measurement results of an experiment on top of Ethernet.