On the performance of IEEE 802.11e wireless infrastructures for soft-real-time industrial applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 425-437

  Cena, Gianluca ^a   Seno, Lucia ^b,c   Valenzano, Adriano ^a   Zunino, Claudio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication systems; computer network performance; real time systems; wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; DEPLOYMENT COSTS; IEEE802.11E; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; KEY ISSUES; PRODUCTION PLANT; TIME BEHAVIOR; WIRED NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURES; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 77955711675     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2010.2052058     Document Type: Article

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