Improving the real-time behavior of Ethernet networks using traffic smoothing

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 151-161

  Lo Bello, Lucia ^a,b,c,d,e   Kaczyński, Giordano Antonio ^b   Mirabella, Orazio ^b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)   (Italy)

^d Technical Committee on Factory Automation   (Italy)

^e Technical Committee on Factory Automation ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Ethernet; Fuzzy control; Genetic algorithms; Real time communication; Traffic smoothing

Indexed keywords

ETHERNET; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION; TRAFFIC SMOOTHING;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; FUZZY CONTROL; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROCESS CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 26944492655     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2005.852071     Document Type: Article

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