6th -11th July 2008 - Seoul, Korea

Prof. Dr. Peter Neumann, from ifak Institut für Automation und Kommunikation Magdeburg is organizing the Industrial Session "Virtual Automation Networks"

The session will deal with recent activities in Virtual Automation Networks, i.e. WANs, Ethernet- based Industrial Communication Systems, wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks and their integrational view. Furthermore, the migration concepts for Fieldbus Systems (or Sensor/Actuator Networks) and Ethernet-based Systems, for WAN and LAN should be shown. Additionally, all important requirements for industrial communications (e.g. safety, security, real-time behaviour, engineering) are of interest.

For that, the following topics are planned:

• Architecture of industrial communications following the VAN concept.
• Migration concepts (Fieldbus Systems/Sensor/Actuator Networks and Ethernet-based Industrial Communication Systems, local industrial communications and Wide Area Networks)
• VAN domains and Network transitions (VAN Access Points, interfaces, proxies) within domains.
• VAN security.
• VAN safety.
• Real-time behaviour of VANs.

For more information on the description and scope of this session, as well as the invited papers, you can download the file