Networks which use real-time communication have high requirements on latency and packet loss. Improving one aspect may results in worse performance for another, and it can be difficult to prioritize one over the other as all the requirements need to be met in order for the network tooperate as expected. Many studies have investigated reducing the size of packet buffers to improve the latency. However, they have mainly focused on studying TCP traffic which may not be optimal for real-time traffic, where it instead could be more suitable to use UDP. We have performed an experiment where we compared the performance of real-time traffic over multiple different buffer sizes. We generated traffic using synchronized bursts of packets which were either sample value (SV) or IP packets, as defined by IEC 61850. We measured the packet loss and latency for situations where the traffic was either entirely composed of SV packets, or when it had mixed SV and IP traffic. For the mixed traffic, we also experimented with using different VLAN priorities for the two types of packets. We have determined deadline thresholds that show what size of packet buffer will start causing packets to miss their deadline, and what size will lead every packet in bursts oftraffic to miss their deadlines. We also found that increasing the priority of SV packets in mixed traffic can have either a positive or a negative impact on their performance, depending on how highly they are prioritized.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-67279 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Winblad von Walter, Ragnar, Sandred, Johan |
| Publisher | Mälardalens universitet, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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