Military Embedded Systems

Hitting the Moving Target with Time Sensitive Networking: An Industry Collaboration on Risk Mitigation

Whitepaper

June 13, 2024

Hitting the Moving Target with Time Sensitive Networking: An Industry Collaboration on Risk Mitigation

Mission-critical military systems including, avionics, ground vehicle systems, uncrewed vehicles, and communications systems, increasingly rely on ethernet connectivity between modules or devices.


Traditional Ethernet (IEEE 802.3 and 802.1Q) has no concept of time regarding data delivery, and thus it is not possible to ensure all real-time data arrives at its destination on time – especially as data loads increase. Deterministic system behavior thus cannot be achieved. Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) addresses this problem, guaranteeing minimal network latency and jitter, and provides for bounded end-to-end delay and guaranteed message delivery time. TSN also allows for the transmission of time-sensitive and non-time-sensitive data on the same network.
 
In this white paper by experts from Aptiv, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Parry Labs, TTTechAuto, and Wind River, readers will learn:

  • The benefits of TSN
  • The on-going work on TSN
  • About industry verticals and TSN profiles
  • How this ‘moving target’ can be addressed, by a ‘back-to-basics’ approach
  • About which organizations have a baseline TSN offering, involving established aspects of IEEE 802.1, to create successful mission-critical systems today and to be future-proof tomorrow.

Download white paper to learn more.