A flexible approach for real-time wireless communications in adaptable industrial automation systems

Author

Trsek, Henning ; Wisniewski, Lukasz ; Toscano, Emanuele ; Bello, Lucia Lo

Author_Institution

inIT - Inst. Ind. IT, Ostwestfalen-Lippe Univ. of Appl. Sci., Lemgo, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Due to several advantages, such as flexibility, increased mobility, and lower costs, the deployment of wireless technologies in factory automation systems is rapidly growing. However, current wireless technologies, e. g., IEEE802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), are not able to satisfy the requirements of industrial applications in terms of real-time communication. In this paper medium access control mechanisms in IEEE 802.11 are investigated and a new isochronous MAC is proposed. In combination with a traffic scheduler specifically designed for it, typical constraints of soft real-time flows found on the factory floor can be satisfied. A preliminary analysis shows the effectiveness of the proposed combination.

Keywords

access protocols; mobility management (mobile radio); telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE802.11; MAC; WLAN; adaptable industrial automation systems; flexible approach; medium access control mechanisms; mobility; preliminary analysis; real-time wireless communications; traffic scheduler; wireless local area networks; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Real time systems; Schedules; Time division multiple access; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2011 IEEE 16th Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0017-0

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0740

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2011.6059152

Filename

6059152