Survey and experiments of WIA-PA specification of industrial wireless network

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1197-1212

  Liang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Xiaoling ^a,b   Xiao, Yang ^c   Wang, Fuqiang ^a   Zeng, Peng ^a   Yu, Haibin ^a  

^a SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

architecture; communication standards; industrial plants; protocols

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICATION STANDARDS; INDUSTRIAL CONTROLS; INDUSTRIAL FIELDS; INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS; INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS NETWORK; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; MODULARIZATION METHODS; NETWORK COMPOSITION; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPEN STANDARDS; PROCESS AUTOMATION; PROTOCOL STACK; WIRELESS PROCESS CONTROL; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; WIRELESSHART;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PROCESS CONTROL; SPECIFICATIONS; STANDARDIZATION; TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 80051770988     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: 15308677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.976     Document Type: Article

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