Title :
Wireless industrial networking using CAN MAC-sublayer
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Sch. of Eng., Tunis, Tunisia
Abstract :
CAN networks, controller area networks, can be used in the framework of real time distributed industrial applications. Such applications cover the automatons and robot systems in manufacture and the distributed and parallel processing systems in industrial and networking fields. The unique difference in those networks resides in the access units (sensor/actuators vs network access, etc.), the other hardware and software architectures remain the same. CAN networks guarantee sufficiently short time latency and it has been shown that these systems exceed in performance token-based networks. So, the medium access control used in CAN MAC sublayer, adopted for real time industrial communications, can be used as MAC protocol for a fixed or mobile industrial wireless based CAN protocol (WCAN).
Keywords :
access protocols; controller area networks; industrial control; wireless LAN; CAN MAC-sublayer; access units; architectures; automatons; controller area networks; medium access control; real time distributed industrial applications; real time industrial communications; robot systems; short time latency; wireless industrial networking; Access protocols; Application software; Automata; Automatic control; Communication industry; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Manufacturing industries; Media Access Protocol; Wireless application protocol;
Conference_Titel :
Industry Applications Conference, 2001. Thirty-Sixth IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2001 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7114-3
DOI :
10.1109/IAS.2001.955683
