摘要

The delay reliability estimation is required in order to guarantee the real-time communication for avionics full duplex switched Ethernet (AFDX). Stochastic network calculus (SNC) can be applied to estimate the reliability with a delay upper bound. However, only linear deterministic traffic envelope function is used to bound its traffic, which cannot represent the traffic randomness and is far from practice. In this paper, a stochastic traffic envelope function, which randomizes the input of SNC, is proposed to solve the problem. A new probabilistic algorithm is derived to estimate the delay reliability based on stochastic envelope functions. A test was conducted to demonstrate our method on an AFDX testbed, and the test results verify that the estimation of delay reliability via our algorithm is much closer to the empirical estimation.