Integration of TCP/IP and PROFIBUS Protocols
Nuno Pereira, Filipe Pacheco, Luís Miguel Pinho, Aggeliki Prayati, Efstratios Nikoloutsos, Athanassios Kalogeras, Elke Hintze, Heiko Adamczyk, Lutz Rauchhaupt · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2002
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.