Data network and method for scheduling data traffic in data network

A method for scheduling data traffic in a data network on board of an aircraft, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a traffic scheduler, communication messages from a plurality of network devices;
• assigning, by a message valuation module of the traffic scheduler, a message value parameter to the received communication messages;
• queuing, by the message valuation module of the traffic scheduler, the communication messages to respective ones of a plurality of message queues depending on the message value parameter assigned to each of the communication messages;
• and
• dispatching, by a queue dispatcher of the traffic scheduler coupled to the plurality of message queues, the communication messages in the plurality of message queues to at least one network communication line of the data network depending on a priority assignment of each of the plurality of message queues.

A method comprising:

• a data traffic scheduler for a data network in an aircraft receiving communication messages from network devices on the aircraft;
• determining a message value parameter to each of the communication messages received by the data traffic scheduler;
• assigning each of the communication messages to one of a plurality of message queues based on the message value parameter assigned to the communication messages;
• queuing each of the communication messages to the message queue to which the communication message is assigned, and
• dispatching the communication messages from the message queues to a network communication line of the data network based on a priority assigned to each of the plurality of message queues.