Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) enhances Ethernet with features such as time
synchronization, scheduled traffic, policing, and redundancy to enable highly
deterministic and reliable communications in mission-critical systems. This
paper presents a comprehensive approach to the configuration, analysis, and
verification of TSN for critical systems, with a focus on time-sensitive
applications such as tank barrel stabilization. The impact of different types of
topologies, traffic types, and application requirements on the configuration
complexity are presented along with various mathematical techniques to generate
network solutions and verify against the system requirements. Detailed modeling,
configuration, and analysis of TSN is demonstrated using a representative mixed
criticality converged network. Lastly, configuration techniques to minimize the
latency, jitter, and frame loss while maximizing the network utilization are
presented.