Digest on First DetCom Simulator Framework Release - Extended version

Authors

Joachim Sachs (EDD), Junaid Ansari (EDD), Mahin Ahmed (SAL), Damir Hamidovic (SAL), Muzaffar Raheeb (SAL), Jose Costa-Requena (CMC), James Gross (KTH), Gourav Prateek Sharma (KTH), Frank Dürr (USTUTT), Simon Egger (USTUTT), Lucas Haug (USTUTT), János Harmatos (ETH), Marilet De Andrade Jardim (EAB), Oliver Höftberger (B&R), Franz Profelt (B&R), David Puffer (B&R)

Abstract

This deliverable describes the simulator framework, which is used in the project to validate the concepts that are developed in the project. It provides an overview of the features so far implemented for the simulator and describes the design rationales behind these implementations. The core feature of the first release is the simulation of packet delay variation in the data plane of a TSN network and processing delay variation of applications and services hosted on an edge cloud infrastructure. Besides a description of these features, also an overview of already available delay distributions is given, which are released together with the software. Finally, we also present the design and implementation of validation scenarios for the simulator framework, which are used, for instance, to validate and evaluate concepts for wireless-friendly end-to-end scheduling and the performance of time synchronization under PDV. 

This extended version of the deliverable includes the description of a new dataset based on a measurement from a 5G testbed deployed in an industrial research shopfloor, which were made in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT).