Evaluation of EtherCAT distributed clock performance

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-29

  Cena, Gianluca ^a   Bertolotti, Ivan Cibrario ^a   Scanzio, Stefano ^a   Valenzano, Adriano ^a   Zunino, Claudio ^a  

^a Istituto Di Elettronica E Di Ingegneria Dell'informazione E Delle Telecomunicazioni Turin   (Italy)

Author keywords

Industrial automation; network protocols; performance and reliability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY; CONTROL APPLICATIONS; CONTROL LOOP; CONTROLLED SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED CLOCKS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION; REAL NETWORKS; REAL TIME ETHERNET; SHORT CYCLE; SUPPORT MOTION;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84856319503     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2011.2172434     Document Type: Article

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