Timeliness in COTS factory-floor distributed systems: What role for simulation?

IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems - Proceedings, WFCS

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 13-22

  Pereira, Nuno ^a   Tovar, Eduardo ^a   Pinho, Luís M ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS); ETHERNET; FACTORY-FLOOR COMMUNICATION SYETMS; NETWORK TYPOLOGY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 17744373732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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