Prof. Lucia Lo Bello, PhD

Publication type:  Conference Proceeding

Authors: E. Toscano, F. Misenti, L. Lo Bello

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)

Pages: 1–8

Date: Sept. 2010

Abstract:
Hybrid wired/wireless network architectures combine the flexibility and inexpensiveness of WLANs with the real-time performance of wired real-time networks. This paper describes both a scheduling framework and a scheduling algorithm to handle real-time communication over the wireless section of a hybrid wired/wireless industrial network, which uses a scheduled protocol that extends the IEEE 802.11n standard. The proposed scheduling framework is able to schedule real-time flows traversing one or multiple Access Points, providing both intra- and inter-cell scheduling. Moreover, the scheduling framework offers support for three different kinds of real-time flows, i.e., periodic, aperiodic, and sporadic. A simulative analysis is also provided to assess the computation times as a function of the number of flows and the number of schedulable flows in different scenarios.

Publisher: IEEE

DOI:  10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641531

URL:  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5641531

Status: published

Cite as:
 E. Toscano, F. Misenti, L. Lo Bello, "A traffic scheduler for real-time wireless communication in adaptable industrial automation systems", IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), pp. 1–8, Sept. 2010