Analysis and Evaluation of a Wired/Wireless Hybrid Architecture for Distributed Control Systems With Mobility Requirements
Wireless communications offer significant benefits over wired communications, which has increased their popularity in industrial applications. Nevertheless, the existing wireless standard technologies do not satisfy the requirements demanded by the most critical industrial applications and thus, wir...
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| author | Zaloa Fernandez Oscar Seijo Mikel Mendicute Inaki Val |
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| description | Wireless communications offer significant benefits over wired communications, which has increased their popularity in industrial applications. Nevertheless, the existing wireless standard technologies do not satisfy the requirements demanded by the most critical industrial applications and thus, wired communications cannot be directly replaced by wireless solutions. Moreover, the inclusion of movable nodes in the network brings new challenges, such as the handover mechanism. In this paper, a hybrid wired/wireless architecture designed for industrial control applications is proposed. To control the wired network, a time-sensitive network (TSN) is used and to control the wireless network a medium access control (MAC) protocol is designed. In order to communicate both networks, a bridge that acts as a deterministic access point (AP) with real-time features is also proposed. One of the fundamental parts of the proposed architecture is that it can be used in applications with mobility requirements. Hence, a soft-handover algorithm is designed which guarantees uninterrupted communication during its execution without the need for a second radio interface and with reduced growth in network overhead. The proposed architecture is evaluated in order to assess its performance. This paper extends our previous work, including both a theoretical analysis to determine the delay bounds of the proposed architecture and a comparison between the performances of the proposed handover algorithm with other algorithms proposed in the literature. The evaluation has been carried out through OMNeT++ simulations. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed handover algorithm compared with other state-of-the-art solutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9c9f08a0dc974bb3ae8f0e0aea34a8962022-12-21T19:46:45ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-017959159593110.1109/ACCESS.2019.29272988756136Analysis and Evaluation of a Wired/Wireless Hybrid Architecture for Distributed Control Systems With Mobility RequirementsZaloa Fernandez0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2201-4732Oscar Seijo1Mikel Mendicute2Inaki Val3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4373-8457Information and Communication Technology Area, IKERLAN Technology Research Centre, Mondragón, SpainInformation and Communication Technology Area, IKERLAN Technology Research Centre, Mondragón, SpainSignal Theory and Communications Area, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Mondragón, SpainInformation and Communication Technology Area, IKERLAN Technology Research Centre, Mondragón, SpainWireless communications offer significant benefits over wired communications, which has increased their popularity in industrial applications. Nevertheless, the existing wireless standard technologies do not satisfy the requirements demanded by the most critical industrial applications and thus, wired communications cannot be directly replaced by wireless solutions. Moreover, the inclusion of movable nodes in the network brings new challenges, such as the handover mechanism. In this paper, a hybrid wired/wireless architecture designed for industrial control applications is proposed. To control the wired network, a time-sensitive network (TSN) is used and to control the wireless network a medium access control (MAC) protocol is designed. In order to communicate both networks, a bridge that acts as a deterministic access point (AP) with real-time features is also proposed. One of the fundamental parts of the proposed architecture is that it can be used in applications with mobility requirements. Hence, a soft-handover algorithm is designed which guarantees uninterrupted communication during its execution without the need for a second radio interface and with reduced growth in network overhead. The proposed architecture is evaluated in order to assess its performance. This paper extends our previous work, including both a theoretical analysis to determine the delay bounds of the proposed architecture and a comparison between the performances of the proposed handover algorithm with other algorithms proposed in the literature. The evaluation has been carried out through OMNeT++ simulations. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed handover algorithm compared with other state-of-the-art solutions.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8756136/HandoverIEEE 802.11industrial communicationsindustrial wireless sensor and actuator networksreal-time communicationsSHARP |
| spellingShingle | Zaloa Fernandez Oscar Seijo Mikel Mendicute Inaki Val Analysis and Evaluation of a Wired/Wireless Hybrid Architecture for Distributed Control Systems With Mobility Requirements IEEE Access Handover IEEE 802.11 industrial communications industrial wireless sensor and actuator networks real-time communications SHARP |
| title | Analysis and Evaluation of a Wired/Wireless Hybrid Architecture for Distributed Control Systems With Mobility Requirements |
| title_full | Analysis and Evaluation of a Wired/Wireless Hybrid Architecture for Distributed Control Systems With Mobility Requirements |
| title_fullStr | Analysis and Evaluation of a Wired/Wireless Hybrid Architecture for Distributed Control Systems With Mobility Requirements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analysis and Evaluation of a Wired/Wireless Hybrid Architecture for Distributed Control Systems With Mobility Requirements |
| title_short | Analysis and Evaluation of a Wired/Wireless Hybrid Architecture for Distributed Control Systems With Mobility Requirements |
| title_sort | analysis and evaluation of a wired wireless hybrid architecture for distributed control systems with mobility requirements |
| topic | Handover IEEE 802.11 industrial communications industrial wireless sensor and actuator networks real-time communications SHARP |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8756136/ |
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