“…The most well-known protocol used in system automation is the Controller Area Network (CAN) (Gergeleit and Streich, 1994), for which an extension for virtual environments vCAN has been proposed with great results (Herber et al, 2014;Breaban et al, 2016). The field-bus protocol EtherCAT (Jansen and Buttner, 2004) is another example.…”