2148 2017 eng 9 13 conferenceobject IEEE 0 2021-11-05 -- -- A huge upheaval emerges from the transition to autonomous vehicles in the domain of road vehicles, ongoing with a change in the vehicle architecture. Many sensors and Electronic Control Units are added to the current vehicle architecture and further safety requirements like reliability become even more necessary. In this paper we present a potential evolution of the Electrical/Electronic-Architecture, including a Zone Architecture, to enable future functionality. We reveal the impact on the communication network concerning these architectures and present a potential communication technology to facilitate such architectures. 13th Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES), 12-13 June 2017, Hamburg, Germany 10.1109/WISES.2017.7986925 publish Stefan Brunner Jürgen Röder Markus Kucera Thomas Waas eng uncontrolled Logic gates eng uncontrolled Computer architecture eng uncontrolled Standards eng uncontrolled Quality of service eng uncontrolled Complexit deu swd Kraftfahrzeug deu swd Softwarearchitektur deu swd TSN-Netz Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik FuE-Anwenderzentrum Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) Nachhaltige Lebensräume