Enabling the Scalability of Industrial Networks by Independent Scheduling Domains

We propose to extend the scalability of Time Sensitive industrial Networks, by partitioning them into time/scheduling domains and interconnect domain-devices through an optical backbone acting asynchronously to them. We show drastic scalability improvements and a proof of concept.

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