Patent ID: 11943046
Assignee: TTTECH COMPUTERTECHNIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A real-time communication network, which comprises
components comprising nodes or starcouplers, which components are connected by links, and wherein an arrangement of the components and links of the network is described by a network topology,
wherein said components of the network communicate via a defined set of communication flows,
wherein each of said communication flows comprises an iterative communication of data, each iteration comprising one or multiple network packets,
wherein said communication flows comprise time-triggered flows, “TT flows”, and rate-constrained flows, “RC flows”, and
wherein each of said communication flows comprises
one sender node, source of the communicated data,
one or multiple destination nodes, receiver(s) of the communicated data,
a unique identifier comprising a unique name or a unique number,
the maximum size of the communicated data in one iteration, and
the period of the communication iterations, being
the exact communication period for TT flows, and
the minimum communication period for RC flows, wherein said minimum communication period defines the minimum time distance between any two successive communication iterations,

wherein the communication flows of the network are communicated according to a network configuration, and
wherein the real-time network is configured to compute said network configuration for the transmission of the communication flows with a method according to claim 1.