Title :
A proposal to integrate process data communication to IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB)
Author :
Imtiaz, Jahanzaib ; Jasperneite, Jürgen ; Schriegel, Sebastian
Author_Institution :
inIT - Inst. Ind. IT, Lemgo, Germany
Abstract :
This paper investigates prospects of the emerging IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Ethernet standard in industrial automation applications. The notion of a small and predictable latency is common for both industrial and multimedia (audio, video) applications. The inbuilt characteristics of 802.1 AVB that includes synchronization, real-time traffic scheduling & shaping and resource reservation makes it a real-time capable Ethernet solution, which can be used for the process control applications as well. This paper presents a way to integrate the industrial process data communication to the lower layer services of IEEE 802.1 AVB, and describes a demonstrator implemented for a proof of concept.
Keywords :
IEEE standards; local area networks; process control; scheduling; IEEE 802.1 AVB Ethernet standard; IEEE 802.1 audio video bridging; industrial automation application; process control application; process data communication; real-time traffic scheduling; resource reservation; synchronization; Automation; Bridges; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Real time systems; Streaming media; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2011 IEEE 16th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0017-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1946-0740
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2011.6059004
