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Coverage Range Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Wireless Technologies in Industrial Channel Conditions

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E-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2016)

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While current reliable and ultra low latency industrial communication is based on wired fieldbus systems, wireless communication is the key to enable future industrial applications. However, the reliability of state-of-the-art wireless technologies is not sufficient for many industrial application scenarios. Thus, novel wireless approaches are being investigated at the moment, from which three promising physical layer (PHY) technologies are depicted for detailed evaluation in this paper: Ultra Wide Band (UWB), Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) and Parallel Sequence Spread Spectrum (PSSS). In order to assess each system’s performance, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are derived from industrial application constraints. In this paper, industrial applications are therefore categorized by vital requirements such as spatial extent, number of nodes, cycle time, PER and user data length. The depicted technologies are evaluated regarding the KPIs error rate and coverage range in AWGN and industrial fading channel conditions.

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Part of the research leading to these results has received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant agreement no. 16KIS0223 also referred to as ParSec, as well as under grant agreement no. 16BU1222 also referred to as KUSZ.

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    Armin Wulf, Lisa Underberg, Ramona Croonenbroeck & Rüdiger Kays

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Wulf, A., Underberg, L., Croonenbroeck, R., Kays, R. (2017). Coverage Range Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Wireless Technologies in Industrial Channel Conditions. In: Obaidat, M. (eds) E-Business and Telecommunications. ICETE 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67876-4_21

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