Engineering PROFIBUS networks with heterogeneous transmission media

Computer Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-32

  Alves, Mário ^a   Tovar, Eduardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fieldbus networks; Interoperability in heterogeneous networks; PROFIBUS; Real time communications

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INTEROPERABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPECIFICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

FIELDBUS NETWORKS; INTEROPERABILITY IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; PROFIBUS NETWORKS; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS; TRANSMISSION MEDIA;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33751212450     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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