Improvement of High-Availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) Unicast Traffic Performance Using Enhanced Port Locking (EPL) Approach
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High-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) is a fault-tolerant protocol for Ethernet networks that provides two frame copies for each frame sent. Each copy is forwarded on a separate physical path. HSR is a potential candidate for several fault-tolerant Ethernet applications including smart grid communications. However, one of the drawbacks of the HSR protocol is that it generates and circulates unnecessary frames within connected rings regardless of the presence of a destination node in the ring. This downside will degrade network performance and may deplete network resources. Previously, we proposed a simple but efficient approach to solving the above problem, namely, port locking (PL), which is based on the media access control address. The PL approach enables the network to learn the locations of the source and destination nodes gradually for each connection pair without using network control frames; the PL then prunes all the rings that do not contain the destination node by locking the corresponding ring's entrance ports at its QuadBox node. In this paper, we present an enhanced port-locking (EPL) approach that increases the number of pruned unused HSR rings. The analysis and corresponding simulation results show that the network traffic volume is significantly reduced for a large-sized HSR connected-rings network and consequently, network performance is greatly improved compared to the standard HSR protocol, and even PL.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E98-D No.9 pp.1646-1656
- Publication Date
- 2015/09/01
- Publicized
- 2015/06/22
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.2014OPP0002
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- Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Optimization and Learning Algorithms of Small Embedded Devices and Related Software/Hardware Implementation)
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Ibraheem Raed ALTAHA
Myongji University
Jong Myung RHEE
Myongji University
Hoang-Anh PHAM
HCMC University of Technology
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Ibraheem Raed ALTAHA, Jong Myung RHEE, Hoang-Anh PHAM, "Improvement of High-Availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) Unicast Traffic Performance Using Enhanced Port Locking (EPL) Approach" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E98-D, no. 9, pp. 1646-1656, September 2015, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2014OPP0002.
Abstract: High-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) is a fault-tolerant protocol for Ethernet networks that provides two frame copies for each frame sent. Each copy is forwarded on a separate physical path. HSR is a potential candidate for several fault-tolerant Ethernet applications including smart grid communications. However, one of the drawbacks of the HSR protocol is that it generates and circulates unnecessary frames within connected rings regardless of the presence of a destination node in the ring. This downside will degrade network performance and may deplete network resources. Previously, we proposed a simple but efficient approach to solving the above problem, namely, port locking (PL), which is based on the media access control address. The PL approach enables the network to learn the locations of the source and destination nodes gradually for each connection pair without using network control frames; the PL then prunes all the rings that do not contain the destination node by locking the corresponding ring's entrance ports at its QuadBox node. In this paper, we present an enhanced port-locking (EPL) approach that increases the number of pruned unused HSR rings. The analysis and corresponding simulation results show that the network traffic volume is significantly reduced for a large-sized HSR connected-rings network and consequently, network performance is greatly improved compared to the standard HSR protocol, and even PL.
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