Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper identifies that existing industrial automation standards, such as IEC/IEEE 60802 and IEEE 802.1Q, often have inconsistent definitions of traffic types. In the context of utilizing time-sensitive networking (TSN) standards for future automation systems, clear and consistent traffic characteristics and use cases should be defined to benefit from TSN features. Besides that, to facilitate the integration of TSN into the automation systems, the current standards provide a recommendation for mapping the automation traffic to the TSN traffic classes. In this paper, we propose an alternative mapping methodology for automation traffic to TSN traffic classes after presenting the existing automation traffic and their characteristics. Finally, through a case study, we show the potential of the new mapping methodology compared to the standard mapping strategy.
Authors: Kasra Ekrad, Inés Alvarez Vadillo, Bjarne Johansson, Saad Mubeen, Mohammad Ashjaei
Institutions: Mälardalen University, ABB (Sweden)
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: VINNOVA
OpenAlex ID: W4415399778