FTT-Ethernet: A flexible real-time communication protocol that supports dynamic QoS management on Ethernet-based systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 162-172

  Pedreiras, Paulo ^a,b   Gai, Paolo ^a,c   Almeida, Luís ^a,b,e   Buttazzo, Giorgio C ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c Evidence Sri   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^e IEETA Research Unit

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Dynamic QoS management; Manufacturing automation; Real time communication

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC QOS MANAGEMENT; MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION;

AUTOMATION; DATA REDUCTION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 27144531059     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2005.852068     Document Type: Article

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