Despite early attempts to use Ethernet in the industrial context, only recently has it attracted
a lot of attention as a support for industrial communication. A number of vendors are offering …

Fieldbus systems have been successfully introduced into industrial automation. Nowadays,
a large community is inventing the usage of Ethernet-based local communication systems in …

In the evolution of an operating system there is a continuing tension between the need to
develop and test new features, and the need to provide a stable and secure execution …

The real-time industrial network, often referred to as fieldbus, is an important element for
building automated manufacturing systems. Thus, in order to satisfy the real-time …

The industrial network, often referred to as fieldbus, becomes an indispensable component
for intelligent manufacturing systems. Thus, in order to satisfy the real-time requirements of …

Through several giant evolutionary steps, Ethernet has become an almost ubiquitous
technology for communication. Being versatile enough to be employed in new and various …

We present a MAC-layer, soft real-time packet scheduling algorithm called UPA. UPA
considers a message model where message packets have end-to-end timeliness …

This paper presents the design and implementation of RT-EP (Real-Time Ethernet Protocol),
which is a software-based token-passing Ethernet protocol for multipoint communications in …

The fieldbus systems have been successfully introduced in the industrial automation.
Nowadays, a large community is inventing the usage of Ethernet-based local …

In this paper, we contribute with an approach to support guaranteed real-time services over
standard switched Ethernet without additional hardware or software modification of the …