Course

Unit 1

Role of In-vehicle networking Overview of CAN-FD Improved Error Detection Capabilities Fault Types Classification of Errors – Calculation of Oscillator Tolerance Phase Margin Evaluation of Phase Margin – Overview of Ethernet Challenges 100BASE-TX Ethernet – Industry-Wide Acceptance of Ethernet

Unit 2

Introduction to Automotive Environment – The Automotive Communication Channel Channel Parameters Automotive Physical Layer Technologies: TCP/IP, 100BASE-T1 Channel – Internet Protocol Middleware SOME/IP Features Header Format Service Discovery – Security Requirements in the Automotive Industry Network Security Solutions

Unit 3

Overview of DDS Components – Architectural Concepts and Entities – Type System – QoS Model – Guidelines for Building System of Systems with DDS Overview of Protocol Buffers Message Structure – Serialization and deserialization – Accelerator Design: Accelerator memory management Serializer and Deserializer unit.

Text Books / References

Reference (s)

1. Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Advantages of CAN FD Error detection mechanisms compared to Classical CAN, Robert Bosch GmbH, iCC 2015, 2015
2. Arthur Mutter, Robustness of a CAN FD Bus System – About Oscillator Tolerance and Edge Deviations, Robert Bosch GmbH, iCC 2013, 2013
3. Kirsten Matheus, Thomas Königseder, Automotive Ethernet, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2021
4. Angelo Corsaro, Douglas Schmidt, The Data Distribution Service: The Communication Middleware Fabric for Scalable and Extensible Systems-of-Systems, 2012
5. Sagar Karandikar, Chris Leary, Chris Kennelly, Jerry Zhao, Dinesh Parimi, Borivoje Nikoli?, Krste Asanovi?, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, A Hardware Accelerator for Protocol Buffers, MICRO ’21, ACM, 2021
6. Clément Jean, Protocol Buffers Handbook: Getting deeper into Protobuf internals and its usage, Packt Publishing, 2024

Course Objectives

• To provide an insight on vehicular communication systems
• To provide an insight on Automotive Ethernet
• To impart knowledge on Data Distribution Service and Protocol Buffers

Course Outcomes:

• CO01: understand the concepts of in-vehicle communication
• CO02: understand the automotive environment and its challenges
• CO03: analyze the usage of middleware in automotive domain
• CO04: understand the concepts of Data Distribution Service (DDS) and Protocol Buffers

CO-PO Mapping

Skills Acquired: Advanced vehicular communication technologies, Automotive Ethernet, DDS and Protocol Buffers