Automated modeling of LonWorks building automation networks

Author

Neugebauer, Mario ; Plönnigs, Jöm ; Kabitzsch, Klaus ; Buchholz, Peter

Author_Institution

Inst. for Appl. Comput. Sci., Dresden Univ. of Technol., XX

fYear

2004

fDate

2004

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

118

Abstract

Developing building automation systems requires careful planning of the applications and the network topology. Editing a model with up to 32,000 nodes manually is very time-consuming. In this paper, an automated approach for modeling LonWorks networks is presented. As a basis the existing LNS network operating system which is suited for integration and management purposes is used. It contains all information implicitly. Therefore, certain data has to be extracted to generate an explicit model for performance evaluation. The approach requires no additional effort for the network developer to acquire a complete model of the LonWorks network. The model is used for accumulated arrival rate estimation and is a basis for later queuing analysis

Keywords

building management systems; network operating systems; performance evaluation; telecommunication network topology; LNS network operating system; LonWorks networks; automated network modeling; building automation networks; building automation systems; data arrival rate estimation; network topology; performance evaluation; queuing analysis; Application software; Buildings; Computer science; Data mining; Databases; Design automation; Field buses; Network operating systems; Queueing analysis; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Factory Communication Systems, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8734-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFCS.2004.1377689

Filename

1377689