Adding local priority-based dispatching mechanisms to P-NET networks: a fixed priority approach

In this paper we address the real-time capabilities of P-NET, which is a multi-master fieldbus standard based on a virtual token passing scheme. We show how P-NET’s medium access control (MAC) protocol is able to guarantee a bounded access time to message requests. We then propose a model for implem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tovar, Eduardo (author)
Other Authors: Vasques, Francisco (author), Burns, Alan (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3610
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/3610