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The utilization of wireless sensor networks in industrial environments poses issues related to performance control. We consider a networked system composed of multiple wireless sensor networks (WSN) that are plugged into a cabled Networked Control System (NCS) made of middleware computers and control stations. The challenge that we faced was to provide predictable end-to-end latency expectations in those settings, as opposed to the problem of predicting latencies within a WSN only. We consider a deployment with multiple small-sized schedule-based WSN sub-networks and the NCS. The approach accounts for details such as de-synch issues that are to be expected in the heterogeneous context. Experimental results show actual latencies and confront them with predictions in a testbed deployment.
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Furtado, P., Cecilio, J. (2012). Application-Level Operations Latency Control in Networked WSAN. In: Li, XY., Papavassiliou, S., Ruehrup, S. (eds) Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31638-8_25
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