Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 15

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2018F203

Citation: Proceedings of the 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 15, pages 665–674 (2018)

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Abstract. Universal serial bus can be considered a cost-effective and high-throughput communication medium for sensor networks and multinode control or data acquisition systems, especially for prototyping purposes. In a prototype system, a PC or Mac computer with a general-purpose operating system is often selected as a host or root node for the USB bus and it acts as a central data collector, supervisory user interface, and network traffic scheduler. However, achieved communication performance is often unsatisfactory since USB stack drivers incorporated in Windows, Linux, or macOS operating systems are not optimised for such specific purposes. The paper shows how an appropriately selected and implemented user application communication schedule, making use of operating system drivers pipelining and multitasking capabilities, can substantially improve USB network throughput and reduce communication latency. Keywords: universal serial bus; sensor network; distributed and networked control and data acquisition systems; rapid prototyping; communication scheduling; USB stack pipelining and multitasking.

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