Simulation of a Robust Communication Protocol for Sensor Data Acquisition

For control systems the timely and dependable transmission of sensor data to a controlling instance is a necessary precondition to perform the intended control task. Yet the communication infrastructures used for this purpose usually have to work under difficult circumstances in the field, e.g., wireless networks might be lacking energy to successfully transmit data. In order to guarantee the robustness of communication infrastructures, several design principals have to be met. Most important, providing redundancy of all communication links and nodes keeps the infrastructure working in case of partly outages. In this paper we describe the simulative approach of our work to assess the robustness of redundant meshed networks.