Performance evaluation by petri nets of a full duplex wireless link for an industrial backbone

Author

Mirabella, O. ; Brischetto, M. ; Raucea, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Telecommun., Univ. of Catania, Catania

fYear

2008

fDate

10-13 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1520

Lastpage

1526

Abstract

This paper addresses the performance evaluation of a full duplex wireless protocol for an industrial backbone making a comparison with the traditional IEEE802.11 half duplex protocol. A Petri net model is used as the basis for the evaluation. The paper first examines the features of a wireless backbone and some issues they impose. Then, the paper describes the limits of the 802.11 and the solution here proposed which is based on the use of full duplex wireless links and discusses the PN models. At last the results of the performance evaluation are presented and the advantages offered by the full duplex solution are discussed.

Keywords

Petri nets; protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 standard; Petri net; full duplex wireless link; half duplex protocol; industrial backbone; performance evaluation; wireless protocol; Communication industry; Computer industry; Industrial plants; Mesh networks; Petri nets; Spine; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2008. IECON 2008. 34th Annual Conference of IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1767-4

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2008.4758179

Filename

4758179