Building automation (BA) and smart homes (SHs) have traditionally not been a unified field
but varied by their origins, legal foundations, different applications, different goals, and …

This paper introduces an analytical approach for the analysis of medium access protocols of
the CSMA type, which are used in many control networks. In contrast to known approaches …

Traffic models play a decisive part in the performance evaluation and design of
communications systems. However, the growing diversification of devices in large networks …

Develo** 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 …

Value chain management has gone through various stages of automation, integration and
optimization in the past decades. While an optimization model for value chain deals with …

Nowadays process data acquisition in automated installations is essential for efficient fault
diagnosis during development and commissioning, but also for quality assurance …

Large technical systems need to be designed both reliable and efficient. Specialized design
tools offer therefore a simplified, abstract design and extend details autonomously in the …

During the design of large technical systems it can fast remunerate to use analytic and
simulative models to test and dimension the system before implementation. However, setting …

Distributed control systems consist of sensors, actuators and controllers, interconnected by
communication networks and are characterized by a high number of concurrent process …

Die Leistungsbewertung bietet sehr effektive und effiziente Methoden zum Test und zur
Dimensionierung von Netzwerken in frühen Entwurfsstadien. Auch softwareseitig sind die …