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Future industrial control/multimedia applications will increasingly impose or
benefit from wireless and mobile communications. Therefore, there is an enormous
eagerness for extending currently available industrial communications networks with
wireless and mobility capabilities. The RFieldbus European project is just one example,
where a PROFIBUS-based hybrid (wired/wireless) architecture was specified and
implemented. In the RFieldbus architecture, interoperability between wired and wireless
components is achieved by the use specific intermediate networking systems operating
at the physical layer level, i.e. operating as repeaters. Instead, in this paper we will
focus on a bridge-based approach, which presents several advantages. This concept was
introduced in (Ferreira, et al., 2002), where a bridge-based approach was briefly
outlined. Then, a specific Inter-Domain Protocol (IDP) was proposed to handle the
Inter-Domain transactions in such a bridge-based approach (Ferreira, et al., 2003a). The
major contribution of this paper is in extending these previous works by describing the
protocol extensions to support inter-cell mobility in such a bridge-based hybrid
wired/wireless PROFIBUS networks.
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Fieldbus Wireless Real-time Industrial automation
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Elsevier