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Industrie 4.0 Virtual Automation Bus Architecture

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Software Architecture (ECSA 2020)

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Many Industrie 4.0 use-cases require end-to-end communication between layers of the automation pyramid. Converting the existing layered communication into a peer-to-peer architecture does however require the functional bridging between protocols. In this article, we discuss Industrie 4.0 communication scenarios, constraints of the automation domain, as well as device communication requirements, and present our end-to-end communication approach based on our information bus concept, the virtual automation bus (VAB).

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute IESE, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Thomas Kuhn, Pablo Oliveira Antonino & Frank Schnicke

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  1. University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Henry Muccini

  2. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Paris Avgeriou

  3. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Barbora Buhnova

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

    Javier Camara

  5. Department of Computer Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

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  6. University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Mirco Franzago

  7. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

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  8. University of Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy

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  9. Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy

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  10. Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  11. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Uwe Zdun

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Kuhn, T., Antonino, P.O., Schnicke, F. (2020). Industrie 4.0 Virtual Automation Bus Architecture. In: Muccini, H., et al. Software Architecture. ECSA 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1269. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59155-7_34

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