Performance analysis of the Ethernet Powerlink PollResponse Chaining mechanism

Author

Knezic, Mladen ; Dokic, Branko ; Ivanovic, Zeljko

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina

fYear

2015

fDate

27-29 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Ethernet Powerlink (EPL) is an industrial Ethernet networking solution that enables hard real-time communication in distributed control and automation systems. The PollResponse Chaining (PRC) mechanism is an extension of the EPL protocol aimed at increasing the network performance when nodes exchange small amount of data, especially if they are connected in line topology. In this paper, we conduct performance assessment of the PRC mechanism for two basic network configurations (line and star topology). In addition, we provide some experimental results obtained by measuring relevant timing parameters of the real EPL network prototype operating in the PRC mode.

Keywords

distributed control; local area networks; protocols; telecommunication network topology; EPL network prototype; EPL protocol; Ethernet powerlink pollresponse chaining mechanism performance analysis; PRC mechanism performance assessment; distributed automation system; distributed control system; industrial Ethernet networking; line topology; Delays; Manganese; Network topology; Payloads; Protocols; Standards; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Factory Communication Systems (WFCS), 2015 IEEE World Conference on

Conference_Location

Palma de Mallorca

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160578

Filename

7160578