Priority-driven swapping-based scheduling of aperiodic real-time messages over EtherCAT networks

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 741-751

  Lo Bello, Lucia ^a,c,d   Bini, Enrico ^b   Patti, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Technical Committee on Factory Automation   (Italy)

Author keywords

EtherCAT; Industrial networks; Priority based real time scheduling; Real time Ethernet (RTE)

Indexed keywords

ETHERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

DYNAMIC-PRIORITY SCHEDULING; ETHERCAT; INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS; REAL - TIME SCHEDULING; REAL TIME ETHERNET; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION; REAL-TIME TRANSMISSIONS; SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84937440769     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2014.2350832     Document Type: Article

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