Nobre Marcelo, Silva Ivanovitch, Guedes Luiz Affonso
Department of Computer Engineering and Automation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitario, 59078-900 Natal, Brazil.
Metropole Digital Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitario, 59078-900 Natal, Brazil.
Sensors (Basel). 2015 Apr 24;15(5):9703-40. doi: 10.3390/s150509703.
Wireless communication is a trend nowadays for the industrial environment. A number of different technologies have emerged as solutions satisfying strict industrial requirements (e.g., WirelessHART, ISA100.11a, WIA-PA). As the industrial environment presents a vast range of applications, adopting an adequate solution for each case is vital to obtain good performance of the system. In this context, the routing and scheduling schemes associated with these technologies have a direct impact on important features, like latency and energy consumption. This situation has led to the development of a vast number of routing and scheduling schemes. In the present paper, we focus on the WirelessHART technology, emphasizing its most important routing and scheduling aspects in order to guide both end users and the developers of new algorithms. Furthermore, we provide a detailed literature review of the newest routing and scheduling techniques forWirelessHART, discussing each of their features. These routing algorithms have been evaluated in terms of their objectives, metrics, the usage of theWirelessHART structures and validation method. In addition, the scheduling algorithms were also evaluated by metrics, validation, objectives and, in addition, by multiple superframe support, as well as by the redundancy method used. Moreover, this paper briefly presents some insights into the main WirelessHART simulation modules available, in order to provide viable test platforms for the routing and scheduling algorithms. Finally, some open issues in WirelessHART routing and scheduling algorithms are discussed.
无线通信是当今工业环境的一种趋势。已经出现了许多不同的技术作为满足严格工业要求的解决方案（例如，WirelessHART、ISA100.11a、WIA-PA）。由于工业环境呈现出广泛的应用，针对每种情况采用适当的解决方案对于获得系统的良好性能至关重要。在这种背景下，与这些技术相关的路由和调度方案对诸如延迟和能耗等重要特性有直接影响。这种情况导致了大量路由和调度方案的发展。在本文中，我们专注于WirelessHART技术，强调其最重要的路由和调度方面，以便指导终端用户和新算法的开发者。此外，我们对WirelessHART的最新路由和调度技术进行了详细的文献综述，讨论了它们各自的特点。这些路由算法已根据其目标、指标、WirelessHART结构的使用情况和验证方法进行了评估。此外，调度算法还通过指标、验证、目标进行了评估，此外还通过多超帧支持以及所使用的冗余方法进行了评估。此外，本文简要介绍了一些可用的主要WirelessHART仿真模块的见解，以便为路由和调度算法提供可行的测试平台。最后，讨论了WirelessHART路由和调度算法中的一些开放问题。
