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The popularity of using Ethernet as an industrial communication network in networked control systems (NCSs) has significantly grown in recent years. Despite this, the quality of control (QoC) could be degraded by cross-traffic in Ethernet. To enable networked control over Ethernet, a proactive QoS (quality of service) management scheme that exploits the neural network technology is presented. Using the idea of QoS framework, the shared network resource is dynamically allocated among control loops with respect to cross-traffic fluctuations, which is predicted by a simple and computationally-fast neural network. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is highly effective in improving the QoC of NCSs over Ethernet.
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Zhao, W., Xia, F. (2006). A Neural Network Approach to QoS Management in Networked Control Systems over Ethernet. In: Huang, DS., Li, K., Irwin, G.W. (eds) Intelligent Control and Automation. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 344. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37256-1_51
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