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It is foreseen that future dependable real-time systems will also have to meet flexibility,
adaptability and reconfigurability requirements. Considering the distributed nature of these
computing systems, a communication infrastructure that permits to fulfil all those
requirements is thus of major importance. Although Ethernet has been used primarily as an
information network, there is a strong belief that some very recent technological advances will
enable its use in dependable applications with real-time requirements. Indeed, several
recently standardised mechanisms associated with Switched-Ethernet seem to be promising
to enable communication infrastructures to support hard real-time, reliability and flexible
distributed applications. This paper describes the motivation and the work being developed
within the CIDER (Communication Infrastructure for Dependable Evolvable Real-Time
Systems) project, which envisages the use of COTS Ethernet as an enabling technology for
future dependable real-time systems. It is foreseen that the CIDER approach will constitute a
relevant stream of research since it will bring together cutting edge research in the field of
real-time and dependable distributed systems and the industrial eagerness to expand
Ethernet responsabilities to support dependable real-time applications.