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Process Automation 25-11
Looking at industrial Ethernet from the point of view of distributed autonomous control as described
in this section, we are also faced with a similar situation as with conventional fieldbuses. Ethernet with
its peer-to-peer, multicast, and broadcast capabilities would fulfill the needs of a distributed control
architecture. However, most of the developed industrial Ethernet systems are mimicking the behavior
of conventional fieldbus systems. That means they are typically organized in a master/slave hierarchical
way and feature a cyclic communication behavior. There are a few that have already a support for multimaster
peer-to-peer communication like EtherNet/IP.
The current use of Ethernet in the industrial domain shows that it can be the solution for the fast
transmission of large data volumes or for systems where conventional fieldbus systems provide not
enough bandwidth. However, for upcoming distributed control systems and also autonomous control
equipment current fieldbus and industrial Ethernet technologies are too restrictive. Their applied master/slave
communication architecture requires extensive efforts for providing peer-to-peer communication
mechanisms as demanded by distributed control systems. In order to support such new control
architectures, effective and efficient new communication methods have to be developed, which provide
on the one hand the flexibility of Ethernet and on the other hand meet the requirement of industrial
control systems as in conventional fieldbus systems.
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