Paper Info
Title
Distributed Real-Time Protocols for Industrial Control Systems: Framework and Examples
Abstract
The automation of today's large-scale industrial systems relies on the operation of distributed controller devices that perform local computations and exchange information via communication networks. The subject of this paper is the development of a family of shared-medium industrial communication protocols that support the transmission of real-time (RT) and nonreal-time (nRT) data among distributed controller devices. Different from existing protocols, we suggest to incorporate information that is available from the control application in the protocol definition. As a result, our protocols dynamically change the bandwidth allocation on the shared medium according to the instantaneous communication requirements while ensuring hard RT guarantees. Following the recent developments in industrial automation, our protocols can be realized as software layers on top of low-cost conventional Ethernet.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TPDS.2011.300
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
control application,shared-medium industrial communication protocol,hard rt guarantee,real-time protocols,large-scale industrial system,industrial control systems,exchange information,bandwidth allocation,instantaneous communication requirement,industrial automation,controller device,communication network,local area networks,real time systems,automata,trajectory,automation,bandwidth,protocols,dynamic bandwidth allocation,real time
Shared medium,Control theory,Bandwidth allocation,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Automation,Industrial control system,Ethernet,Dynamic bandwidth allocation,Abstraction layer,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
10
1045-9219
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.71
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Klaus Schmidt1353.67
Ece Guran Schmidt214616.27