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Self-optimization is a promising approach to cope with the increasing complexity of today’s automation networks. The high complexity is mainly caused by a rising amount of network nodes and increasing real-time requirements. Dynamic hardware reconfiguration is a key technology for self-optimizing systems, enabling, e.g., Real-Time Communication Systems (RCOS) that adapt to varying requirements at runtime. Concerning dynamic reconfiguration of an RCOS, an important requirement is to maintain connections and to support time-constrained communication during reconfiguration. We have developed a dynamically reconfigurable Ethernet switch, which is the main building block of a prototypic implementation of an RCOS network node. Three methods for reconfiguring the Ethernet switch without packet loss are presented. A prototypical implementation of one method is described and analyzed in respect to performance and resource efficiency.
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Griese, B., Porrmann, M. (2006). A Reconfigurable Ethernet Switch for Self-Optimizing Communication Systems. In: Pan, Y., Rammig, F.J., Schmeck, H., Solar, M. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing. BICC 2006. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 216. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34733-2_12
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