Simulation model of computer network based on switch Ethernet and redundant transfer is developed and researched. E ciency of this model using on con gurations with di erent redundancy ratio is dened. The aim of the work is the studying of the redundant transfer in computer networks. The e ciency analysis of the redundant packet transmissions is carried out on the basis of simulation modeling. The complex e ciency of the redundant packet transmission is determined based on the multiplicative index, which takes into account the errorfree transmission and the average time margin relative to the maximum permissible transmission delay. The presented results can be used in the design of the high-reliable computer systems including the computer systems providing real-time services. Recommendations for using the presented results are described in the assigned section of this paper and in the conclusion.
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E ciency of redundant transmissions at peer-to-peer interconnection in switching net-work is researched in this article. 2
The purpose of this work is studying of improving of packets timely delivery probability in the local computer networks based on the switched Ethernet at reservation of network switches and creating copy of packets which will be send for target node via di erent switch-es. The environment for modeling computer networks OMNeT++ was chosen as a simulation package. This environment provides the user with the ability to build networks based on the real network protocols at all levels of the reference network model. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to develop the computer network models in the OMNeT++ environment, conduct experiments with various options for the channel aggregation, and highlight areas for the rational use of the computer network to improve the e ciency of the computing system in the conditions of unreliable transmissions. 3
The object of the study is the distributed computer network which consists of n network switches and m peer-to-peer clients connected to switches which generate the data destined to each other at random times. Scheme of considered computer networks and tra c directions are shown at Fig. 1.
The probability of the bit errors in each of the communication channels of this system is B. The data ow generated by each client is the simplest with the intensity . To increase the probability of delivering messages to the server in this system with the channel redundancy the transfer of the packet copy transmissions with multiplicity K is applied, where K shows how many switches are used to deliver the copies of the packet to the server from each client. However, it should be worth considering that switches like other net-work equipment have input and output queues and with increasing redundancy ratio in the system increases the probability of delivery; however the size of queues in switches also in-creases which entails the increase of the total frame stay time in the system. Channel division between clients helps to realize ability of redundant transfer. For ex-ample, if K = 2 then every client send own tra c via two network switches, if K = 3 then client send via three network switches etc. In this way, delivery probability is increasing. Criterion for evaluating the e ectiveness of using one or another method of the redundant packet transmission, which is the criterion M = P(t0 T), re ecting the average time of error-free and timely transmitted packets from the client to the server, where P is the probability of the timely and error-free package delivery, de ned by simulation, t0 is the time limit for the timely delivery acceptable for a given system, T is the average time the package has been in the system. 4
The OMNeT++ simulation environment provides many di erent network protocols and tra c generators using these protocols. In this work, the UDP protocol (User Datagram Protocol) is used, as it is assumed to transmit the data sensitive to the delay for controlling actions on the real-time system. OMNeT++ environment implements various types of generators and users of UDP tra c. The UDPBasicApp application generates packets of a certain size with a given intensity to the address speci ed in the con guration le. The UDPSink application listens to the speci ed port and receives all packets that came to the socket from the source. However the application data models do not assume the use of the redundant transmission: the generator application sends only one packet to a given communication channel, and the recipient application cannot recognize copies of the same packet and receives them all, assuming that they are di erent packets from the source. The OMNeT++ modeling system is writ-ten in the C ++ programming language and allows to modify the kernel of the system and the developed models. To enable the development of the models with the redundant transmissions, new application classes that extend existing ones have been developed. This classes allow to send copies of packets via di erent channels for redundant transmissions.
The simulation model of the above system with three switches and six peerto-peer clients was built after nalizing the components for modeling. This model is based on the EtherSwitch switch model and the StandardHost model, which represents the clients and server of the simulated system. Fig. 2 shows the constructed model of the system under investigation in the OMNeT ++ environment. The developed model allows to set the parameters in the con guration les and the initialization les of the modeling process for the study and study of various options for the implementation of the transmission redundancy.
Fig. 2: The simulation model of the network with the possibility of the redundant transfers in the OMNeT ++ environment.
All clients are divided into groups of two, for example Client 1 and Client 4, Client 2 and Client 5 and so on. In every group all clients send and receive tra c. In case of the redundant transmission every switch is used by more than one client.
We will conduct a series of experiments with speci ed parameters and varying the redundancy ratio: L = 10 Mbit/s - bandwidth of the communication channels connecting clients and the server to the switches, t0 = 0.0005 s - delivery time margin, B = 0.0001 - bit probability channel errors, = 2000 1/s - the packet receipt intensity, the packet length for the entire modeling process is assumed to be 100 bytes.
Fig. 3 shows the chart of the criterion M on the redundancy multiplicity of trans-missions K at a packet arrival rate of 2000 1/s and 5000 1/s. It can be seen from the chart that the selected performance criterion M takes large values at lower intensity, which indicates small queue sizes in network switches. At greater intensity and with an increase in the multiplicity of redundancy due to the transmission of copies of the queue packets in the commutators they grow which leads to an increase in the residence time of packets in the system and reduces the value of the e ciency criterion. Thus, in this network con guration packet trans-mission with less intensity is more e cient. Simulation model of computer network based on switch Ethernet that allows increasing transmission redundancy is developed via OMNet++ simulation environment. Simulation experiment with di erent intensity and redundancy ratio are carried out. Areas of applications of transfer redundancy at channel aggregation in computer networks based on switch Ethernet are identi ed.