WFCS 2012 - 9th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems COMMUNICATION in AUTOMATION

Workshop program

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Monday, May 21^st, 2012
Industry Day
Tuesday, May 22^nd, 2012
08:45 - 09:00	Opening Session
09:00 - 10:00	Session 1: Applications Chair: Martin Wollschlaeger, TU Dresden
	Wireless Machine Vision Systems Based on COTS Equipment Gianluca Cena, Stefano Scanzio, Adriano Valenzano, Claudio Zunino A Comparison of Time- and RSS-based Radio Localization for the Factory Floor Reinhard Exel, Thilo Sauter
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00	Session 2: Controller Area Networks Chair: Gianluca Cena, IEIIT-CNR / Politecnico di Torino
	Response-Time Analysis of Mixed Messages in Controller Area Network with Priority- and FIFO-Queued Nodes Saad Mubeen, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Mikael Sjödin Controller Area Network (CAN) Schedulability Analysis for Messages with Arbitrary Deadlines in FIFO and Work-Conserving Queues Robert Davis, Nicolas Navet Controller Area Network (CAN): Response Time Analysis with Offsets Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Dominique Bertrand, Nicolas Navet, Robert I. Davis
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30	Keynote 1: Cyber-Physical Systems in Factory Automation Chair: Thomas Nolte, MRTC / Mälardalen University
	Cyber-Physical Systems in Factory Automation - Towards the 4th Industrial Revolution Jochen Schlick (DFKI, Germany)
14:30 - 15:30	WiP Session 1: Wireless Networks and Application Design Chair: Paulo Pedreiras, University of Aveiro
	Assessment of the Interference Caused by Uncontrolled Traffic Sources upon Real-Time Communication in IEEE 802.11-based Mesh Networks Carlos Viegas, Silvio Sampaio, Francisco Vasques, Paulo Portugal, Pedro Souto An Admission Control Mechanism to Handle Real-Time Traffic in IEEE 802.11 Networks in Open Communication Environments Robson Costa, Paulo Portugal, Ricardo Moraes, Francisco Vasques Integrating Smart Cameras into ZigBee Felix Schuster, Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Granzer Performance Assessment and Tuning Rules for Low-power and Lossy Stacks Nicola Accettura, Carlos Aguado Camacho, Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Gennaro Boggia, Pietro Camarda Minimum Latency and Energy Efficiency Routing with Lossy Link Awareness in Wireless Sensor Networks Dang Hoa Tran and Dong-Sung Kim Energy-Efficient Packet Relaying Based on the Sensing Relevancies of Source Nodes in Visual Sensor Networks Daniel Costa, Luiz Guedes, Francisco Vasques, Paulo Portugal Enabling Quick Deployment Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Cities David Todolí, Salvador Santonja, Víctor M. Sempere A Throughput-aware Routing for Distributed Industrial Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Quang Pham, Soo-Ro Kim, Dong-Sung Kim Deterministic real-time medium access for cognitive industrial radio networks Kristina Kunert, Magnus Jonsson, Urban Bilstrup Scripting Language for Distributed Application Design Matthias Riedl, Marco Meier, Robert Schneckenhaus Vertical Data Integration in Automation based on IEC 61499 Alexander Dennert, Andreas Goessling, Jakob Krause, Martin Wollschlaeger, Ana Maria Henao Montoya
15:30 - 16:15	Coffee break and Poster discussion
16:15 - 17:45	Session 3: Wireless Networks I Chair: Francisco Vasques, University of Porto
	Q-MAC: A queue-length aware hybrid CSMA/TDMA MAC protocol for providing dynamic adaptation to traffic and duty-cycle variation in wireless sensor networks Shuguo Zhuo, Ye-Qiong Song, Zhi Wang, Zhibo Wang Comparative assessments of IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee and 6LoWPAN for low-power Industrial WSNs in realistic scenarios Emanuele Toscano, Lucia Lo Bello Statistical Analysis and Predictive Modeling of Industrial Wireless Coexisting Environments Ganesh Man Shrestha, Kaleem Ahmad, Uwe Meier
18:30 - 20:00	Welcome Reception at "Residenzschloss Detmold"

Wednesday, May 23^rd, 2012

09:00 - 10:00	WiP Session 2: Industrial Communication Networks Chair: Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est
	An FPGA based HSR Architecture for Seamless PROFINET Redundancy Holger Flatt, Sebastian Schriegel, Thimo Neugarth, Juergen Jasperneite Fast and simple scheduling algorithm for PROFINET IRT networks Lukasz Wisniewski, Markus Schumacher, Sebastian Schriegel, Juergen Jasperneite Dynamic Frame Packing in Industrial Applications using COTS Components Jonas Schoch, David Ganz, Hans Dermot Doran, Karl Weber Active Delay Variation Control for Improving Fault Tolerance in an Avionics Network Hairui Zhou Mixing Real Time Ethernet Traffic on the IEC 61850 Process Bus Paolo Ferrari, Alessandra Flammini, Stefano Rinaldi, Gunnar Prytz A Compact Approach to Clustered Master-Slave Ethernet Networks Mohammad Ashjaei, Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte, Luis Almeida, Ricardo Marau Approaches to reduce the Latency for High Priority Traffic in IEEE 802.1 AVB Networks Jahanzaib Imtiaz, Juergen Jasperneite, Karl Weber Implementation of End-to-End Latency Analysis for Component-Based Multi-Rate Real-Time Systems in Rubus-ICE Saad Mubeen, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Mikael Sjödin Generalisation of GPS and P-GPS in network calculus William Mangoua Sofack, Marc Boyer Physical Layer of a Novel Broadband Low-Level Fieldbus with Discrete Multitone Thomas Handte, Matthias Breuninger, Hanns Thilo Hagmeyer, Joachim Speidel A path to oscillation free controller changes Milton Cunguara, Tomás Oliveira E Silva and Paulo Pedreiras
10:00 - 10:45	Coffee break and Poster discussion
10:45 - 12:15	Session 4: Wireless Networks II Chair: Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania
	The Effects of Relay Behavior and Position in Wireless Industrial Networks Svetlana Girs, Elisabeth Uhlemann, Mats Björkman On Relaying for Wireless Industrial Communications: Is Careful Placement of Relayers Strictly Necessary? Andreas Willig, Elisabeth Uhlemann Experimental Evaluation of Multiple Retransmission Schemes in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks Odilson Tadeu Valle, André V. Milack, Carlos Montez, Paulo Portugal, Francisco Vasques
12:15 - 13:45	Lunch break
13:45 - 15:15	Session 5: Ethernet Chair: Wolfgang Kastner, Vienna University of Technology
	The High-Availability Seamless redundancy protocol (HSR): Robust fault-tolerant networking and loop prevention through duplicate discard Holger Heine, Oliver Kleineberg Hardware Acceleration Architecture for EtherCAT Master Controller Tatsuya Maruyama, Tsutomu Yamada Controlling Multi-Switch Networks for Prompt Reconfiguration Ricardo Marau, Moris Behnam, Zahid Iqbal, Pedro Silva, Luis Almeida, Paulo Portugal
15:15 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30	Session 6: Verification, fault tolerance and performance Chair: Paulo Portugal, University of Porto
	Formal Verification of a Distributed Master Election Protocol Gianluca Cena, Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, Tingting Hu Towards a Reliable Parallel Redundant WLAN Black Channel Markus Rentschler, Per Laukemann An Efficient Fixed-length Encoding Scheme for CAN Gianluca Cena, Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, Adriano Valenzano
18:30 - 23:00	Conference Dinner at "LWL Open Air Museum"

Thursday, May 24^th, 2012

09:00 - 10:00	Keynote 2: Smart Grid Communications Chair: Andreas Willig, University of Canterbury
	Smart Grid Communications - The Key for Exploiting Renewable Energy Sources Kai Struebbe (TUEV SUED; Germany)
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00	Session 7: Modelling and Design, Flexray Chair: Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, IEIIT-CNR / Politecnico di Torino
	Automated network layout for the industrial communication engineering system NetGen:X Markus Stoess, Falk Doherr, Leon Urbas Information Modeling in Heterogeneous Building Automation Systems Wolfgang Granzer, Wolfgang Kastner Guaranteeing Real-Time Message Deadlines In The FlexRay Static Segment Using a On-line Scheduling Approach Rodrigo Lange, Francisco Vasques, Paulo Portugal, Romulo Silva de Oliveira
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch break
13:00 - 13:15	Closing Session
13:30 - 18:30	Excursion to the world's largest Computer Museum