Experimental Evaluation of an Industrial Application Layer Protocol Over Wireless Systems

Several recent studies have addressed the suitability of current wireless technologies for industrial communications which, frequently, are requested to cope with severe timing constraints. Most of the analysis that have lately appeared in the literature have focused on the performance offered by th...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial informatics 2007-11, Vol.3 (4), p.275-288
Main Authors: Vitturi, S., Carreras, I., Miorandi, D., Schenato, L., Sona, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access protocols
Application layer protocols
Communication
Communication industry
Design engineering
Devices
factory automation systems
industrial communications
Manufacturing automation
Measurement
Performance evaluation
performance measurements
Protocol
Prototypes
Running
Sensor phenomena and characterization
Stacks
Studies
Time measurements
Timing
Wireless application protocol
Wireless communication
Wireless communications
Wireless LAN
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Several recent studies have addressed the suitability of current wireless technologies for industrial communications which, frequently, are requested to cope with severe timing constraints. Most of the analysis that have lately appeared in the literature have focused on the performance offered by the lower layers of the communication stack. However, in order to obtain a complete picture, it is important to analyze how this gets coupled with the features of higher layer protocols typically employed by industrial communication applications. In this paper, we investigate the performance obtained by an application layer protocol, derived from those currently employed by wired fieldbuses, running over COTS devices based on two popular wireless communication standards, namely, IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.11. In particular, we present a mapping of the application service elements onto the services offered by the mentioned wireless systems and discuss some possible design choices. A prototype of the application layer protocol is then implemented for each considered wireless technology and the performance figures evaluated by means of experimental measurements.
ISSN:1551-3203
1941-0050
DOI:10.1109/TII.2007.911892