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Engineering Hybrid Wired/Wireless Fieldbus Networks - a case study
Ref: HURRAY-TR-0308       Publication Date: 1, Jul, 2003

Engineering Hybrid Wired/Wireless Fieldbus Networks - a case study

Ref: HURRAY-TR-0308       Publication Date: 1, Jul, 2003

Abstract:
Advances in networking and information technologies are transforming factory-floor communication systems into a mainstream activity within industrial automation. It is now recognized that future industrial computer systems will be intimately tied to real-time computing and to communication technologies. For this vision to succeed, complex heterogeneous factory-floor communication networks (including mobile/wireless components) need to function in a predictable, flawless, efficient and interoperable way. In this paper we re-visit the issue of supporting real-time communications in hybrid wired/wireless fieldbus-based networks, bringing into it some experimental results obtained in the framework of the RFieldbus ISEP pilot.

Authors:
Mário Alves
,
Eduardo Tovar
,
Luis Miguel Marques
,
Steve Behaeghel
,
Katrijn Van Nieuwenhuyse


2nd International Workshop on Real-Time LANs in the Internet Age (RTLIA03).
Porto, Portugal.



Record Date: 1, Jun, 2003