Affiliation:
1. Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
Abstract
With recent advances in vehicle technologies, in-vehicle networks (IVNs) and wiring harnesses are becoming increasingly complex. To solve these challenges, the automotive industry has adopted a new zonal-based IVN architecture (ZIA) that connects electronic control units (ECUs) according to their physical locations. In this paper, we evaluate how the number of zones in the ZIA affects the end-to-end (E2E) delay and the characteristics of the wiring harnesses. We evaluate the impact of the number of zones on E2E delay through the OMNeT++ network simulator. In addition, we theoretically predict and analyze the impact of the number of zones on the wiring harnesses. Specifically, we use an asymptotic approach to analyze the total length and weight evolution of the wiring harnesses in ZIAs with 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 zones by incrementally increasing the number of ECUs. We find that as the number of zones increases, the E2E delay increases, but the total length and weight of the wiring harnesses decreases. These results confirm that the ZIA effectively uses the wiring harnesses and mitigates network complexity within the vehicle.
Funder
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
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