IEEE Access • Vol 12
Acyclic Traffic Management in EtherCAT Networks: Novel Adaptive Grouping and Telegram Assignment Mechanism
January 2024 • Danish Mehmood Mughal, Younghwa Kim, Byung-Chun Jeon, S. W. Lee, Min Young Chung
Recent advances in industrial, railway, and in-vehicle communications demand network architectures that ensure low latency, high synchronization, and efficient bandwidth utilization. While Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT) effectively handles real-time cyclic traffic, managing non-real-time acyclic traffic, such as Ethernet/IP frames, remains challenging. Existing Ethernet-over-EtherCAT (EoE) schemes struggle to balance these traffic types, resulting in inefficient bandwidth use and increased l…