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Enforcing Flexibility in Real-Time Wireless Communications: A Bandjacking Enabled Protocol

Bartolomeu, P. ; Ferreira, J. ; Fonseca, J.

Enforcing Flexibility in Real-Time Wireless Communications: A Bandjacking Enabled Protocol, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation - ETFA, Palma de Maiorca, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, September, 2009.

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Abstract
Wireless communications are being applied in heterogeneous domains ranging from healthcare to industrial manufacturing. However, as wireless channels are highly unreliable, the support of applications having tight hard real-time and fault-tolerance requirements has been provided by dedicated wired communications. Recently, a technique named bandjacking has been evaluated as a feasible solution to mitigate the unreliability associated with wireless channels in contention-based communications environments. This paper builds on this technique to propose an FTT inspired protocol aiming to provide deterministic, reliable and flexible wireless communications.