Status: Open
Investigating the Real-Time Capability of a COTS Hardware Device
PA: Research Project (INF-PM-FPA / INF-PM-FPG / INF-25-MA-FP) or
BA: Bachelor Thesis (or Studienarbeit / Großer Beleg) or
MA: Master's Thesis (or Diploma Thesis / Diplomarbeit)
Real-time systems, such as Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) or industrial automation, require precise timing and very low jitter to ensure deterministic behavior. While software-based solutions often struggle with latency and synchronization, hardware-assisted timestamping offers a promising approach and an alternative to expensive FPGA-based frame generators. At the same time, real-time communication in mixed wired-wireless networks is of increasing interest, introducing new challenges when received traffic needs to be forwarded to the wireless interface while keeping the delay low.
Goals of the thesis
This thesis aims to investigate the performance of a Raspberry Pi running a real-time Linux kernel (or, alternatively a dedicated real-time OS) in conjunction with a dedicated network interface card that supports hardware timestamping. The thesis will investigate the performance of sending, receiving, and forwarding data.
Requirements
- Experience with C++, perf, and microcontroller programming