• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.584-593
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• 2007

BACnet is a standard data communication protocol especially designed for building automation and control networks. BACnet uses the Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP) protocol as one of its field-level networks. In this study, the performance of the BACnet MS/TP protocol is evaluated using an experimental model. The network performance is investigated and evaluated in terms of token rotation time and round trip time. The experimental results show that the performance of the MS/TP network is heavily influenced by the network traffic load, the assignment of MS/TP node address and the network configuration parameter called $N_{max_info-frames}$. Based on the experimental results, simple practical designing guidelines for BACnet MS/TP network systems are also proposed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1987.07a
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• pp.221-225
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• 1987

In this paper, the performance of Mini MAP architecture in realtime application is analyzed by analytic methods. The approximate equations for token rotation time and waiting time are obtained and using these equations network. performance is evaluated. According to the results obtained, Mini MAP architecture has good realtime performance and can be used to many real time applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.511-514
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• 2002

In may automated systems such as manufacturing systems and process plants, an industrial network or fieldbus is a very important component for the exchange of various and sometimes crucial information. Some of the information has a tendency to rapidly lose its value as time elapses after its creation. Such information or data is called real-time data that includes sensor values and control commands. In order to deliver these data in time, the fieldbus network should be tailored to have short delay with respect to the individual time limit of various data. Fine-tuning the network for a given traffic requires the knowledge on the relationship between the protocol parameters such as timer values and the performance measure such as network delay. This paper presents a mathematical performance model to calculate communication delays of the Profibus FMS network when the timer value TTR and the traffic characteristics are given. The results of this model is compared to those from experiments to assess the model's validity.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.338-341
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• 2005

In this paper, a real-time communication method using a PICNET-NP(Plant Instrumentation and Control Network for Nuclear Power Plant) is proposed with an analysis of the control network requirements of DCS (Distributed Control System) in nuclear power plants. The method satisfies deadline in case of worst data traffics by considering aperiodic and periodic real-time data and others. In addition, the method was used to analyze the data characteristics of the DCS in existing nuclear power plant. The result shows that use of this method meets the response time requirement(100ms).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.07a
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• pp.100-105
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• 1990

Associated with the protection and control functions in the substations, a new network scheme based on the IEEE 802.4 is proposed in this paper. This network is designed for supporting 3 data classes: 1st, it includes the highly time-critical data for the fault detection function. 2nd, routine data with a period is to served for monitoring the power status. Finally, it contains the control data which is used for reporting an event about protection or tuning some values related with power status. The way to allocate target_token_rotation timer is provided to guarantee the protection and control activities in the suggested network for the substation.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.283-294
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• 1996

To operate the automatic devices of manufacturing process more effectively and to solve the needs of the resource sharing, network technology is applied to the unit control devices located in common manufacturing zone and operated by connecting them. This paper introduces deign and test operation of cell system for the management of multivendor PLC by applying to wall paper process based on the manufacturing standardization of CIM. The analysis of designed multivendor PLC group is performed by selecting the parameters such as variation of data packet size and node number of PLC ladder logic program and variation by analyzing the corresponding variation values of token rotation time and waiting time for the system operation. For the method of the analysis,the equation is considering the overhead such as indicated packet service time and transmission safety margin for PLC network connection in M/G/1 queue model,and it is applied to the cell system and PLC group manage-ment for operation .Through the experiment,it is found that the realtime processing is possible with expanded and better result than the resuit obtained by Jayasumana.Browaka with PLC scan time considered,response lower limit of 10-20 msec. data packet size not more than 50 bytes.and the number of nodes less than 40.