Performance assessment of a WirelessHART network in a real-world testbed

2012 IEEE I2MTC - International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 953-957

  Ferrari, Paolo ^a   Flammini, Alessandra ^a   Rinaldi, Stefano ^a   Sisinni, Emiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

digital control; distributed sensor; intelligent sensor; wireless mesh networks; wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; FIELD BUS; INTELLIGENT SENSORS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; STANDARD PROTOCOLS; TEST NETWORK; TIME DOMAIN; TRANSFER DELAY; WIRED LINKS; WIRELESS NODES; WIRELESSHART;

DATA TRANSFER; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TESTBEDS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 84864223131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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