Coverage Range Analysis of Wireless Technologies for Industrial Automation - System Overview and Performance Evaluation

Armin Wulf, Lisa Underberg, Rüdiger Kays

2016

Abstract

Reliable wireless communication is crucial to current and future industrial applications, but is however not yet applicable in many scenarios. Thus novel approaches are being investigated at the moment, from which three physical (PHY) layer technologies are depicted for detailed evaluation in this paper. Preceding the performance analysis, industrial application requirements and constraints as spatial extent, number of nodes, cycle time, PER and user data length are summarized. Error rates and coverage ranges are calculated and presented for Ultra Wide Band (UWB), Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) and Parallel Sequence Spread Spectrum (PSSS) assuming an AWGN channel.

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@conference{winsys16,
author={Armin Wulf and Lisa Underberg and Rüdiger Kays},
title={Coverage Range Analysis of Wireless Technologies for Industrial Automation - System Overview and Performance Evaluation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: WINSYS, (ICETE 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={74-83},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005971600740083},
isbn={978-989-758-196-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: WINSYS, (ICETE 2016)
TI - Coverage Range Analysis of Wireless Technologies for Industrial Automation - System Overview and Performance Evaluation
SN - 978-989-758-196-0
AU - Wulf A.
AU - Underberg L.
AU - Kays R.
PY - 2016
SP - 74
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0005971600740083


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Wulf A., Underberg L. and Kays R. (2016). Coverage Range Analysis of Wireless Technologies for Industrial Automation - System Overview and Performance Evaluation . In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: WINSYS, (ICETE 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-196-0, pages 74-83. DOI: 10.5220/0005971600740083