Title : 
Process Plant Reference Model for Communication
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
ABB Corporate Research, Bergerveien 12, N-1375 Billingstad. Kai.Hansen@no.abb.com
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This article discusses the need of reference models for evaluating the various communication solutions proposals. A model is proposed and some example analyses are done for Ethernet and some wireless protocols.
         
        
            Keywords : 
industrial engineering; industrial plants; local area networks; protocols; radio networks; Ethernet; communication solutions; process plant reference model; wireless protocols; Communication industry; Communication system control; Ethernet networks; Instruction sets; Proposals; Scalability; Size control; Standardization; Testing; Wireless application protocol;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2006. ETFA '06. IEEE Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Prague
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-9758-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ETFA.2006.355440