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The recent intensive development of networking technologies together with an increasing tendency to use broadband networks in industrial applications have caused the appearance of many new methods and protocols based on Ethernet. Rapidly expanding wireless branch of networking will certainly force even more problems on IT and Control professionals to solve. The specifics of wireless media, its vulnerabilities and new topologies are unfortunately an even match for it’s undisputable features.
For that reason a basic analysis of medium access methods is made to verify IEEE 802.11, one of the most popular wireless computer communication standards, ability to be used in industrial or other time deterministic environments. Four methods of media access are taken into consideration in this paper: DCF, PCF, EDCF and HCF. Their basic features are confronted with industrial systems demands and each one is evaluated on possible fields of use.
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Domagała, W. (2009). IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Mechanisms in Industrial Applications. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02671-3_32
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