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Chapter 7REAL TIME SYSTEM COMMUNICATION

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Contents

• Introduction• Media communication• Network Topology• Sending message• Network Design Issues• Protocol • Summary

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Introduction

• Effective communication between various hardware in real time system are crucial to ensure it can function correctly.

• Embedded system– Data flow:

• From sensor and control panel to central cluster of processor.

• Between processors in the central cluster.• From processor to the actuators and output display.

– Communication overheads adds to the computer response time.

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Sensor and actuator layer

Peripheral cluster

central cluster

Real time system structure

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Introduction

• Hard Real time system – use communication protocol so that communication overhead can be enclosed .

• Soft real time system – Multimedia and video conferencing– Delay in data transmission can effect quality of service but

it is not critical.• Protocol communication real time system vs traditional system.

– Real Time System – able to transmit message on time (follw the deadline)

– Traditional System – able to transmit lots of data from source to destination through network in one time. (throughput).

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Introduction

• Delay in message can cause by:– Format and message packet– Line of message when waiting to access the communication

media.– Sending message form source to destination. – Deformatting the message.

• Real time traffic is categorized based on:– Deadline– Arrival pattern– Priority

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Introduction

• Real time traffic resources have two categories:– Constant rate

• The size of fix packet is produced in equal time rate.• easy to manage.

– Variable rate• The size of fix packet is produced in unequal time rate

or• Various packet size can be produced in fix time rate.• example : voice can have talk spurts ( a lot of packet

followed by silent).

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Communication media

• 3 important media:– Electromagnetic medium– Fiber optic– Wireless

a. Electromagnetic Medium– Twisted pair and coaxial cable– Twisted pair – connected using RJ45/RJ11 depends on cable

category.– Coaxial cable – hardware is connected using T-junction or

vampire tap.

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b. Fiber optic– Transform electric signal to light impulse. – Operates up to 10Gbps ( NOW ???)– Receiver will change the signal back to electric signal. – Point-to-point network and passive star – suitable to use fiber

optic.– Advantages

• High Bandwidth• No electromagnetic interference.

– Disadvantages• Difficult to add node without losing any signal. • High maintenance cost.

Communication media

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• Point-to-point network– No tap– Interface have optical ->

electrical and electrical -> optical.

– Interface change optical signal to electrical and vice versa.

– Node will check whether the receiving message is for itself or not.

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NodeNetwork interface

Optical to electrical

Electrical to optical

electronics

interface

node

Point-to-point network

Communication media

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• Passive star– Interface will send optical

signal to glass cylinder (passive star).

– Output will be divided between output fiber frin sylinder.

– Interface receive input and choose intended message for itself.

– Need sensitive and powerful transceiver to detect signal.

Interface 1 Interface 2 Interface 3

Passive star

Star architecture

Communication media

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• WDM (wavelength division multiplexing)– Divide fiber channel into virtual

channel.– Every channel has interface and

optical detector to change wavelength in virtual channel.

– Every channel has enough bandwidth to suite with electronic interface bandwidth.

Interface 1

Interface 2

Interface 3

Interface 4

Interface 5

Communication media

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c. Wireless– Distance between radio and transmitter, while sustain the

receiver depends on:• Transmitter power• Receiver sensitivity• Noise level• Type of error control.• Attenuation barrier (walls, partitions, hardware etc)

– Advantages • No need wires to connect node. • Develop Ad hoc network.

– Disadvantages • Interference.

Communication Media

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Network Topology

• To develop and design network, important criterias that should been taken are:– Diameter – maximum length between two nodes in the

system. – Node degree – quantity of peripheral that located adjacent

to node, shows total of I/O port for each node and total of channel in the system.

• Many hardware – higher cost– Fault-tolerance – measure network ability to handle

individual channel failure and node failure while operating.

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• Network topology clasification:

1. Point-to-point topology

2. Shared topology (broadcast)

1. Point to point• Node is connected using dedicated link• If node send messages not to an adjacent node, that

message will pass through intermediate node (router, bridge).

2. Shared topology• All node can use the communication channel but only

one node can send message at one time.

Network Topology

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interface interface

Node 1 Node n

Node 4

Node 2

Node 3

Node 1

interface interface

interfaceinterface

Network path

Shared network

Point-to-point network

Network Topology

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• Types of network topology:

1. Bus• Both end will be terminated to prevent electromagnetic

interference.• Interface consists of tap or forwarding points

2. Ring• Receive bit will be copy into buffer, process and then send to

output.

Topologi Bas Topologi Cincin

Network Topology

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3. Mesh

4. Hypercube– 2n node in n-dimensional hypercube– Node is label binari 0 to 2n – 1 and is

connected using line between node with differentiation one bit.

– N-dimensional = two (n-1)-dimensional hypercubes

Rectangular mesh

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00 01

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Hypercube network : two-dimensional

Network Topology

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4 configuration 2 X 2 switch

Physical Topology vs Virtual Topology???

5. Multistage network•Built out of switchboxes•4 confguration.

Network Topology

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Sending Message

• 3 methods to send message:

1. Packet switching• Message will be break apart into packet. • Packet has header that contain source address, destination and

other important information.• Sending to destination using routing and flow control algoritma.

2. Circuit switching• Circuit will establish between source and destination before

sending message. • Other message must wait until the sending process complete.

3. Wormhole routing• Pipelining sending packet in multihop network.• Can cause deadlock

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Circuit switching

Sending Message

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Network Design Issues

• High level design/architecture– High level distributed system contains set of node that

communicate through network.– Every node can be a multiprocessor that have application,

system and network processor.– Network architecture can support scalability, easy to run, reliable

and support communication 1 to 1 and 1 to many.• Low level design/architecture

– Provide packet processing , routing and error control. – In real time distributed system, there are deadline, time

management and housekeeping issues. – Network processor (NP) – function to handle those issues.

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• Network Processor (NP)– Execute sending message from source to destination

operation.– Task that send message will give information to NP about the

receiver and message destination– NP tasks

• Establish connection between source and destination• Handle error detection and resend message. • Choose alternative route. • Give bandwidth. • Packet the information to data block and segment.• Assemble packet when reach its destinantion.

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• Continue…– In point-to-point: NP choose switching technique.– In token ring: NP choose suitable protocol to ensure it meets its

deadline.– NP perform framing, synchronization and packet sequencing.

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• I/O Architecture– To enhance I/O, the I/O hardware will be divided to multiple

access path (multi accessibility) and handle by a controller.– Multi accessibility – combination of I/O hardware and then

assign a controller to manage access to hardware in each cluster.

– Controller is connected with three node in the system.

0 1

0

3

1

4

2

node

I/O controller

Network Design Issues

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Protocol

• Protocol category– Contention-based protokol

• VTCSMA• Window protocol

– Token-based protocol• Timed token protocol• IEEE 802.5 Token ring protocol

– Stop-and-go Multihop Protocol– Polled bus protocol– Hierarchical round-robin protocol– Deadline based protokol– Fault tolerance routing

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Protocol : VTCSMA

• VTCSMA (virtual time carrier sensed multiple access)– for single-channel broadcast network, ring and bus

topology– Node monitor channel and sending message if the

channel is idle.– If many nodes sending packet at one time, this can cause

collision.– If collision happen, the sending node will abort and try to

send again after the channel is idle.– CSMA-distributed algorithm, every node can determine

time to send message. How to determine??

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Protocol : VTCSMA

• Information in each node:– Channel state ( idle or busy )– Priority packet wait in the buffer before sending through

network. – Time follows syncronized clock

• VTCSMA algorithm used two clock for each node:– Real clock (RC) – tells real time that synchronized with node’s

clock.– Virtual clock (VC)

• If channel is busy, VC freeze. • If channel free, VC reset at rate n>1. • VC is more accurate than RC when it is free.

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Protokol : VTCSMA

t1

t4

t3

t2

t1 t2 t3 t4

RC

VC Channel busy

Channel idle

Operation of virtual clock

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Protokol : Window Protocol

• Window protocol– Based on collision sensing.– Cannot guarantee message will be send on time. – Suitable for soft real time system.– System contain set of node which is connected through bus.– Every node will monitor bus line to receive message dedicated

for them.– Window = sela masa (setiap node mempunyai sela masa yang

sama).– Node can send packet if latest-time-to-transmit (LTTT) packet

is located in the window and the channel is idle. – If so many sending packet, refer to LTTT value.

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Protokol : Token Based Protocol

• Token based protocol– Token – Grant for node to send packet in the network.– When done, node will send the token to other node. – Suitable for bus and ring topology/

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– Token algorithm melibatkan beberapa overhead:• Medium propagation delay – mengambil masa untuk mesej

bergerak dari satu node ke node yang lain• Token transmission time – penghantaran token keluar

mengambil masa.• Token capture delay – sela masa (time lag) antara node

mengambil token dan node menghantar mesej.• Network interface latency – masa antara bit diterima oleh

antaramuka rangkaian dan apabila ia dihantar.

Protokol : Token Based Protocol

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Protokol : Time Token Protocol

• Timed token protocol1. Synchronous traffic

– real time traffic.- protokol ensure each node can send synchronous trafic for each T unit time.

2. Asynchronous traffic- non-real time traffic. - take unused bandwidth from synchronous traffic.- Key control – TTRT (target token-rotation time)- when token arrive, node will check the value

• Cycle time >TTRT = LATE , transmit synchronous traffic• Cycle time < TTRT = EARLY, transmit synchronous and

asynchronous traffic.

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Protokol : Token Ring

IEEE 802.5 token ring

SD SAAC DAED ED FSmessageError control

code

SD –start delimiterAC – access controlED – ending delimiterFS – Frame statusSA – Source addressDA – Destination address

FS = 00 -> destination node not availableFS =10 -> frame tidak boleh disalin ke destinasiFS =11 -> frame diterima oleh destinasi

Disemak oleh sender bila data frame kembali semula. After that, remove the FS

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Protokol

• Packet Scheduling– Cannot preempted packet transmission. If occur, the sender

must resend the packet. – Overhead occur while sending the message again. – Decide priority for each packet earlier.

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Protocol : Stop and Go Multihop

Protocol• Stop and go multihop protocol

– For hard deadline packet delivery– Distributed algorithm– Every node works without any control. – All nodes can send and served in nonpreemptive priority order.– Node idle when there is no packet to be send.

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Protocol : Polled Bus Protocol

• Polled bus protocol– Assume bus network with a bus busy line.– When processor broadcast on the bus, it maintains this high

line.– When finish, this line is reset.– Line execute wired-OR operation.– When 2 signal, A and B put on a line simultaneously, the signal

is A.OR.B.

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Execute using FIFOAssume : 5 processes P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5 with execution time are 10, 29, 3, 7 and 12 (unit ms)Assume start time, t = 0 ms and quantum time = 10ms

P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P2 P5 P2

Waiting time;P1 = 0msP2 = (10 + (40 - 20) + (52-50)) = 32msP3 = 20msP4 = 23msP5 = (30 + (50-40)) = 40msAverage waiting time = (0 + 32 + 20 + 23 + 40) / 5 = 23ms

0 10 20 23 30 40 50 52 61

Example:Round Robin

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Protocol : Deadline Based Protocol

• Deadline based protocol– Preemptive vs nonpreemptive– 3 types of traffic

1. Guaranteed trafficSystem ensure that every packet must meet its deadline.

2. Statistical real time trafficPacket cannot miss deadline exceeding certain percentage that be in agreement

3. Non real-time trafficPacket did not guarantee/meet deadline (deadline is not important)

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Protocol

Protocol for real time system

Protocol Deadline guarantee Type of network

VTCSMA No Broadcast

Window No Broadcast

Timed token Yes Ring

IEEE 802.5 Yes Ring

Stop-and-go Yes Point-to-point

Polled bus No Bus

Hierarchical round robin

Yes Point-to-point

Deadline based No Point-to-point

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Summary

Communication media??

sending message??

Network topology??

Protocol???