An active star topology for improving fault confinement in CAN networks

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 78-85

  Barranco, Manuel ^a,b,d   Proenza, Julián ^a,b,e   Rodríguez Navas, Guillermo ^a,b,d   Almeida, Luís ^a,c,f  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^d System Robotics and Vision (SRV)

^e Department of Mathematics and Informatics at UIB ^*

^f UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Communication system fault diagnosis; Communication system fault tolerance; Controller area network (CAN) protocol; Fault tolerance; Field buses; Hub; Star; System analysis and design; Topology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FAULT DIAGNOSIS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FAULT TOLERANCE; CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK (CAN) PROTOCOLS; FIELD BUSES; HUBS; STAR; SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 33646732679     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2006.875505     Document Type: Article

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