On the Use of IEEE 802.11n for Industrial Communications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1877-1886

  Tramarin, Federico ^a,b   Vitturi, Stefano ^a,b   Luvisotto, Michele ^a,b   Zanella, Andrea ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11 standards; industrial communication; real time systems

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; STANDARDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

IEEE 802.11 STANDARDS; IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS LAN; INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; TIMELINESS AND RELIABILITY;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 85012045392     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2015.2504872     Document Type: Article

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