Lightweight Agent Platform for High-Performance Fieldbus Nodes

Nowadays, state-of-the-art agent platforms cannot run on fieldbus systems, due to the constrained characteristics that the nodes present. Therefore, field area networks (FANs) are far from taking advantage of software agents and distributed intelligence techniques. This paper tackles both problems: it describes first a lightweight agent platform specially designed for fieldbus systems and second, it assesses high-performance nodes that would be able to host such a platform.

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