Standardization of industrial Ethernet - the next battlefield?

Felser, Max; Sauter, Thilo

doi:10.1109/wfcs.2004.1377762

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“…While some might have hoped that the move towards Ethernet within the automation industry might result in the development of a single fieldbus standard where the original standardisation effort had failed, it became apparent from the structure of the working groups formed and their goals that another compromise standard was the most likely outcome [17]. This was the most likely outcome for a number of reasons.…”

Section: B Ethernet Fieldbusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to Industrial Control Networks

Galloway

Hancke

2013

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

416

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Abstract-An industrial control network is a system of interconnected equipment used to monitor and control physical equipment in industrial environments. These networks differ quite significantly from traditional enterprise networks due to the specific requirements of their operation. Despite the functional differences between industrial and enterprise networks, a growing integration between the two has been observed. The technology in use in industrial networks is also beginning to display a greater reliance on Ethernet and web standards, especially at higher levels of the network architecture. This has resulted in a situation where engineers involved in the design and maintenance of control networks must be familiar with both traditional enterprise concerns, such as network security, as well as traditional industrial concerns such as determinism and response time. This paper highlights some of the differences between enterprise and industrial networks, presents a brief history of industrial networking, gives a high level explanation of some operations specific to industrial networks, provides an overview of the popular protocols in use and describes current research topics. The purpose of this paper is to serve as an introduction to industrial control networks, aimed specifically at those who have had minimal exposure to the field, but have some familiarity with conventional computer networks.

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Section: B Ethernet Fieldbusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to Industrial Control Networks

Galloway

Hancke

2013

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

416

193

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“…Another potential for improvement is the interface between fieldbuses, which currently creates unnecessary additional costs. Maybe, it is possible to harmonize them at least in the lower layers 4 by, e.g., Ethernet [27]- [29]. Maybe, the new developments around OLE for process control and service-oriented architectures can help in providing a solution for the upper layers.…”

Section: Fieldbus Systems-historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Communication and Computation in Buildings: A Short Introduction and Overview

Dietrich

Bruckner

Zucker

et al. 2010

IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.

105

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Abstract-Building automation (BA) and smart homes (SHs) have traditionally not been a unified field but varied by their origins, legal foundations, different applications, different goals, and national funding programs for basic research. Only within the last years that an international common focus appeared. The following overview gives not only an introduction into the topic of BA but also the distinction to other areas of automation, in which networks of the field level (the sensor and actuator level) play an important role. Finally, the scientific challenges will be mentioned. SHs are referred to when the differences to BA have to be explicitly stressed. This paper is an introduction for the special IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS section on BA and shall introduce the reader to this new topic. BA not only has a huge economic potential but also is of significant academic interest today.

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“…These different real-time Ethernet derivatives differ slightly in terms of performance, intended applications and hardware requirements (see e.g. [4] for an overview). Importantly, they are not compatible to each other and possess differing protocol stacks.…”

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Real-time Ethernet — a solution for all communication-related problems within a digital production print line?

Weber

Rehkopf

2009

2009 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies &Amp; Factory Automation

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In the industry there is a growing trend to use realtime Ethernet for factory communication. In this case study from the digital print industry a new communication standard is selected to host an automation protocol. It would have been a natural choice to migrate to a real-time-Ethernet derivative. However, after a research project an industry consortium chose not to adopt real-time-Ethernet but migrate to a two-cable approach that separates the data to be communicated in terms of their real-time requirements although from a technical point of view, real-time Ethernet would have been a viable alternative. This paper explains the background of this decision and it further shows that incorporating only one physical hardware connection combining several types of information not necessarily simplifies an implementation.

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Standardization of industrial Ethernet - the next battlefield?

Cited by 44 publications

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Introduction to Industrial Control Networks

Introduction to Industrial Control Networks

Communication and Computation in Buildings: A Short Introduction and Overview

Real-time Ethernet — a solution for all communication-related problems within a digital production print line?

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Standardization of industrial Ethernet - the next battlefield?

Cited by 44 publications

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Communication and Computation in Buildings: A Short Introduction and Overview

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