A module for the FTT-SE protocol in ns-3

Demo in Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 2015). 13 to 14, May, 2015. Castelldefels, Spain.

The Flexible Time Triggered Switched Ethernet (FFT-SE) protocol allows the concurrent transmission of both real-time (i.e., synchronous and asynchronous) traffic and best-effort traffic over Ethernet. Communications within an FTT-SE network are done based on the reservation of fixed duration time slots called Elementary Cycles (ECs). The construction of the ECs and the media access control are managed by the master node. The FTTSE protocol uses the master/slave paradigm, in which the slave nodes make petitions for transmission to the master node, and the master node grants them access for transmission according to the scheduling algorithm chosen by the master node (e.g., Rate Monotonic, Earliest Deadline First, etc.).