A New Architecture Design of Industrial Networks
Zhu Shan, Shi Xiao · 2017
Industrial networks, regarded as the core of intelligent manufacturing, mostly are implemented to support various monitoring applications in industrial environments.As such, the low-latency and high-reliability are the vital metrics especially under heavy loads.However, the existing conventional TCP/IP network fails to provide real-time communications for data transmitted between devices and controllers.To satisfy strict restrictions on latency and reliability of industrial communication, this paper designs a new architecture based on the existing TCP/IP model and a hybrid scheme.Special applications in industrial networks, such as industrial control information transmission, could be transmitted along the special channels by using the proposed method to guarantee their real-time.Finally, the simulation results demonstrate that the proposed architecture exhibits great performance in real-time and reliability.