Automatic Multipath Stream Configuration¶

Goals¶

In this example we demonstrate the automatic stream redundancy configuration based on multiple paths from source to destination.

INET version: 4.4

Source files location: inet/showcases/tsn/framereplication/automaticmultipathconfiguration

The Model¶

In this case we use an automatic stream redundancy configurator that takes the different paths for each redundant stream as an argument. The automatic configurator sets the parameters of all stream identification, stream merging, stream splitting, string encoding and stream decoding components of all network nodes.

Here is the network:

Here is the configuration:

[General]
network = AutomaticMultipathConfigurationShowcase
sim-time-limit = 0.1s
description = "Automatic multipath stataic stream redundancy configuration"

# disable automatic MAC forwarding table configuration
*.macForwardingTableConfigurator.typename = ""

# all Ethernet interfaces have 100 Mbps speed
*.*.eth[*].bitrate = 100Mbps

# packet error rate of all links is 20%
**.channel.per = 0.2

# enable frame replication and elimination
*.*.hasStreamRedundancy = true

# source application
*.source.numApps = 1
*.source.app[0].typename = "UdpSourceApp"
*.source.app[0].io.destAddress = "destination"
*.source.app[0].io.destPort = 1000
*.source.app[0].source.displayStringTextFormat = "sent %p pk (%l)"
*.source.app[0].source.packetLength = 1200B
*.source.app[0].source.productionInterval = truncnormal(100us,50us)

# destination application
*.destination.numApps = 1
*.destination.app[0].typename = "UdpSinkApp"
*.destination.app[0].io.localPort = 1000

# all interfaces must have the same address to accept packets from all streams
*.destination.eth[*].address = "0A-AA-12-34-56-78"

# visualizer
*.visualizer.infoVisualizer.modules = "*.source.app[0].source or *.destination.app[0].sink"

# enable stream policing in layer 2
*.*.bridging.streamRelay.typename = "StreamRelayLayer"
*.*.bridging.streamCoder.typename = "StreamCoderLayer"

# enable automatic stream redundancy configurator
*.streamRedundancyConfigurator.typename = "StreamRedundancyConfigurator"

# seamless stream redundancy configuration
*.streamRedundancyConfigurator.configuration = [{name: "S1", packetFilter: "*", source: "source", destination: "destination",
                                                 trees: [[["source", "s1", "s2a", "s3a", "destination"]],
                                                         [["source", "s1", "s2b", "s3b", "destination"]],
                                                         [["source", "s1", "s2a", "s2b", "s3b", "destination"]],
                                                         [["source", "s1", "s2b", "s2a", "s3a", "destination"]]]}]

# visualizer
*.visualizer.streamRedundancyConfigurationVisualizer.displayTrees = true
*.visualizer.streamRedundancyConfigurationVisualizer.lineColor = "black"

Results¶

Here is the number of received and sent packets:

../../../../../_images/packetsreceivedsent2.svg

Here is the ratio of received and sent packets:

The expected number of successfully received packets relative to the number of sent packets is verified by the python scripts. The expected result is around 0.657.

Sources: omnetpp.ini, AutomaticMultipathConfigurationShowcase.ned

Discussion¶

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