Engineering hybrid wired/wireless fieldbus networks - a case study

Alves, Mário; Tovar, Eduardo; Marques, Luís; Behaeghel, Steve; Nieuwenhuyse, Katrijn Van

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Nieuwenhuyse, Katrijn Van

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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.