Alves, MárioTovar, EduardoMarques, LuísBehaeghel, SteveNieuwenhuyse, Katrijn Van2014-01-292014-01-292003http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3491Advances 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.engconference object10.26537/r3491