Determining required processing time of a data network
AssigneeHirschmann Automation and Control GmbH
InventorsRene HUMMEN, Florian MUECK, Stephan KEHRER
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Abstract
A method for operating a data network, wherein the data network contains network devices that use data connections to interchange data packets, wherein a mechanism is operated in order to determine at least one end-to-end latency between network devices, characterized in that as a mechanism a network device transmits a trigger packet to at least one further network device and a timestamp is used to establish when the trigger packet has reached this at least one further network device.
Claims8
A method of operating a data network containing network devices that exchange data packets over data connections and a mechanism is operated to determine at least one end-to-end latency between network devices, the improvement comprising the steps of:
- the mechanism transmitting a trigger packet from a network device to at least one further network device, and
- generating a timestamp to establish when the trigger packet has reached this at least one further network device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.