ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Nunes da Rocha, T.N.)

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An Event Driven Communication Protocol for Process Control: Performance Evaluation and Redundant Capabilities

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J.O. Ortola Vidal, E.B. Blanco Vinuela, M. Boccioli, T.N. Nunes da Rocha
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The CERN Unified Industrial Control System framework (UNICOS) with its Continuous Control Package (UNICOS CPC) is the CERN standard solution for the design and implementation of continuous industrial process control applications. The in-house designed communication mechanism, based on the Time Stamp Push Protocol (TSPP) provides event driven high performance data communication between the control and supervision layers of a UNICOS CPC application. In its recent implementation of full redundant capabilities for both control and supervision layers, the TSPP protocol has reached maturity. This paper presents the design of the redundancy, the architecture, the current implementation as well as a comprehensive evaluation of its performance for SIEMENS PLCs in different test scenarios.

Poster MOPPC024 [7.161 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOPPC024	An Event Driven Communication Protocol for Process Control: Performance Evaluation and Redundant Capabilities	111
	J.O. Ortola Vidal, E.B. Blanco Vinuela, M. Boccioli, T.N. Nunes da Rocha CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The CERN Unified Industrial Control System framework (UNICOS) with its Continuous Control Package (UNICOS CPC) is the CERN standard solution for the design and implementation of continuous industrial process control applications. The in-house designed communication mechanism, based on the Time Stamp Push Protocol (TSPP) provides event driven high performance data communication between the control and supervision layers of a UNICOS CPC application. In its recent implementation of full redundant capabilities for both control and supervision layers, the TSPP protocol has reached maturity. This paper presents the design of the redundancy, the architecture, the current implementation as well as a comprehensive evaluation of its performance for SIEMENS PLCs in different test scenarios.
	Poster MOPPC024 [7.161 MB]