A multi-service adaptive wireless communication protocol for industrial networks

Abstract

Industrial networks play a very important role in this round of industrial upgrading and transformation, but at the same time, more and more applications appear in industrial production, which need to be supported by industrial networks, especially wireless networks. These different kinds of applications have different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. The existing wireless communication protocols usually only aim at specific type of applications, and are not suitable for the coexistence of multi-service production environment. In this paper, a new extension protocol is proposed to address the challenge, which is based on PCF model of 802.11 protocols. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol aggregates different systems.