Integration of TCP/IP and PROFIBUS protocols

• Author(s): Pereira, Nuno ; Pacheco, Filipe ; Pinho, Luis Miguel ; Prayati, A. ; Nikoloutsos, E. ; Kalogeras, A. ; Hintze, E. ; Adamczyk, H. ; Rauchhaupt, L.
• Date: 2002
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3497
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Recent technological developments are pulling fieldbus networks to support a new wide class of applications, such as industrial multimedia applications. These applications are usually supported by the widely used TCP/IP stack. It is thus essential to provide support to TCP/IP based applications, in fieldbus networks. This paper presents an effort that is being carried out to integrate the TCP/IP and PROFIBUS stacks, in order to support industrial multimedia applications, whilst guarantying the timing requirements of control-related traffic.