@article{HagerFinkeSeitzetal., author = {Hager, Markus and Finke, Thomas and Seitz, Jochen and Waas, Thomas}, title = {Software-based management for Ethernet networks}, series = {Wireless Personal Communications}, volume = {74}, journal = {Wireless Personal Communications}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, doi = {10.1007/s11277-013-1341-3}, pages = {1021 -- 1032}, abstract = {An adequate network management is an essential part for each network permitting to keep the network performance at a suitable level. In this paper, we present our work focusing on an Ethernet network which is used as background interconnection technology for a smart home system in large buildings like tenements or an office block. In this case the network is larger and especially the applications are quite heterogeneous as compared to a private smart home system. Therefore, it is hard to supply a fair and quality of service aware network meeting all the demands. This is especially challenging in the case of an Ethernet network because this technology was intended to use it as a transparent connection system without the feature to support hard quality of service. We present how this problem could be solved by a middleware which best meets the special requirement of the mentioned use case. Finally, we discuss possible design improvements of this solution and present the recent Ethernet standards that could help solve this problem in an alternative way.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BrunthalerWaasKucera, author = {Brunthaler, Sebastian and Waas, Thomas and Kucera, Markus}, title = {On Verify and Validate a Next Generation Automotive Communication Network}, series = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - PECCS, 121-127, 2019, Vienna, Austria}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - PECCS, 121-127, 2019, Vienna, Austria}, publisher = {SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications}, isbn = {978-989-758-385-8}, doi = {10.5220/0008191601210127}, pages = {121 -- 127}, abstract = {As a result of the enormous growth in data traffic for autonomous driving, the conventional in-vehicle network is no longer sufficient and requires new types of network concepts in a vehicle. This part of the automobile is known as the next generation communication network. Since the new car-systems can be extended by various services at any time, the network must adapt dynamically to new requirements wherever possible. For example, data flow must be configured dynamically between new services. Also data rates will be much higher in the future than today. This is one of the main reasons why we need to search for new technologies for data transfer in vehicles. This is based on an in-vehicle ethernet network. The process of configuring networks automatically has been discussed several times in recent years. One of the next steps is verifying and validating the automatic configuration process during the development of the new communication network. This research paper identifies several ways to ensure the automatically generated network configuration leads to a secure system. To achieve that, other parts of the company's enterprise IT architecture and network technologies, the conventional vehicle network and other options for verification and validation are analysed}, language = {en} }