Fixed-length payload encoding for low-jitter controller area network communication

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2155-2164

  Cena, Gianluca ^a   Cibrario Bertolotti, Ivan ^a   Hu, Tingting ^a,b   Valenzano, Adriano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Controller area network (CAN); industrial control; real time distributed systems

Indexed keywords

BIT STUFFINGS; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK; EMBEDDED ARCHITECTURE; ENCODING SCHEMES; INDUSTRIAL CONTROLS; REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PAYLOADS;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLERS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL;

JITTER;

EID: 84886655384     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2013.2240310     Document Type: Article

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