Status: Open
Investigating the Real-Time Capability of a COST Hardware Device
PA: Research Project (INF-PM-FPA / INF-PM-FPG) 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 minimal 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 expansive 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 real-time linux kernel or a dedicated real-time OS running on a Raspberry Pi with a dedicated network interface card with hardware timestamping. In addition to precise sending, receiving, and forwarding should also be investigated.
Requirements
- Experience with C++, perf and microcontroller programming