Real-time message transmission method and computer network for transmitting real-time messages

摘要

The disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a method for the transmission of messages in a computer network comprised of computing nodes which are interconnected via active components. The computing nodes exchange real-time-messages that are allocated defined CM time intervals of constant duration. The bandwidth available for real-time messages within a CM time interval is limited to a defined real-time bandwidth. The computing nodes periodically transmit time-triggered messages. The period duration of the time-triggered messages is a function of the time duration of the CM time intervals, and the transmission timing of time-triggered messages transmitted from different computing nodes to the same active component is phase-shifted, so that time-triggered messages from different computing nodes can be received in the active component at different times. The total number of the bandwidths within one CM time interval occupied by time-triggered messages and real-time messages does not exceed the value of the real-time bandwidth.