Using cut-through forwarding to retain the real-time properties of profibus over hybrid wired/wireless architectures

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1208-1217

  Koulamas, Christos ^a   Koubias, Stavros ^b   Papadopoulos, George ^a,b  

^a INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cut through forwarding; Profibus; Real time systems; Wireless fieldbuses

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

CUT-THROUGH FORWARDING; DATA LINK LAYER; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL DOMAIN; PROFIBUS; WIRELESS FIELDBUSES;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044245153     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2004.839429     Document Type: Article

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