Real-time networks are traditionally built on proprietary standards, resulting in a interoperability issues between different real-time netork implementations and traditional data networks mainly used in back office operations.

Continuity and supplier independence are a cause of concern with current

proprietary real-time networks.

This project evaluates the capability of providing real-time traffic over

switched Ethernet with EDF scheduling algorithm implemented at both the

switch and the node. By using OMNET simulation tool at packet level, it

is shown that the EDF implementation in switched Ethernet can guarantee

real-time traffic over the network and at the same time supporting non real-time traffic.