Field-level networks have been one of the keys to modern automation systems. Be it in
factory, process, or building automation, networks allow for horizontal and vertical …

Industrial communication systems represent one of the most important innovations of the last
decades in the context of factory and process automation systems. They are networks …

Today's manufacturing environments are very dynamic and turbulent. Traditional enterprise
information systems (EISs) have mostly been implemented upon hierarchical architectures …

Wireless industrial sensor networks are wireless sensor networks which have been adapted
to industrial applications. Most techniques for wireless sensor networks can be applied to …

Coexistence issues between IEEE 802.11 b wireless communication networks and IEEE
802.15. 4 wireless sensor networks, operating over the 2.4-GHz industrial, scientific, and …

Wireless communication has gained more interest in industrial automation due to flexibility,
mobility, and cost reduction. Wireless systems, in general, require additional and different …

Industrial control systems are foreseen to operate over hybrid wired/wireless networks.
While the controller will be deployed in the wired network, sensors and actuators will be …

This paper proposes a new real-time communication scheme for 802.11 e wireless
networks. This scheme is called Group Sequential Communication (GSC). The GSC …

In industrial communication systems, the unavailability of models of real components, in
particular of their behavior in the presence of non-ideal channels, often leads to consistent …

Wireless communications can facilitate the deployment of novel industrial applications to
improve productivity or health and safety conditions. Health and safety applications require …