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This paper presents a measurement study of the traffic traces from the industrial process control IP networks. We present some interesting and unique traffic characteristics of the IP networks which support the control of manufacturing and precision-control machines. Understanding their traffic behaviors would help us to operate the fault-tolerant control IP networks, where the cost of network malfunctioning is far more severe than ordinary IP data networks. We observe rather steady and cyclic traffic patterns in the collected traces between the control IP network entities, mainly PLCs and process controllers.
This research was supported by the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Assessment)” (IITA-2006-C1090-0603-0045).
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Won, Y.J. et al. (2007). Measurement Analysis of IP-Based Process Control Networks. In: Ata, S., Hong, C.S. (eds) Managing Next Generation Networks and Services. APNOMS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75476-3_39
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