Performance Evaluation of Parallel Wi-Fi Redundancy with Deferral Techniques

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Auteurs principaux: Cena, Gianluca, Chiavassa, Pietro, Scanzio, Stefano
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author Cena, Gianluca
Chiavassa, Pietro
Scanzio, Stefano
author_facet Cena, Gianluca
Chiavassa, Pietro
Scanzio, Stefano
contents Wireless communication is increasingly used in industrial environments, since it supports mobility of interconnected devices. Among the transmission technologies operating in unlicensed bands available to this purpose, Wi-Fi is certainly one of the most interesting, because of its high performance and the relatively low deployment costs. Unfortunately, its dependability is often deemed unsuitable for real-time control systems. In this paper, the use of parallel redundancy is evaluated from a quantitative viewpoint, by considering a number of performance indices that are relevant for soft real-time applications. Analysis is carried out on a large dataset acquired from a real setup, to provide realistic insights on the advantages this kind of approaches can provide. As will be seen, deferred parallel redundancy provides clear advantages in terms of the worst-case transmission latency, at limited costs concerning the amount of consumed spectrum. Hence, it can be practically exploited every time a wireless connection is included in a control loop.
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spellingShingle Performance Evaluation of Parallel Wi-Fi Redundancy with Deferral Techniques
Cena, Gianluca
Chiavassa, Pietro
Scanzio, Stefano
Networking and Internet Architecture
Wireless communication is increasingly used in industrial environments, since it supports mobility of interconnected devices. Among the transmission technologies operating in unlicensed bands available to this purpose, Wi-Fi is certainly one of the most interesting, because of its high performance and the relatively low deployment costs. Unfortunately, its dependability is often deemed unsuitable for real-time control systems. In this paper, the use of parallel redundancy is evaluated from a quantitative viewpoint, by considering a number of performance indices that are relevant for soft real-time applications. Analysis is carried out on a large dataset acquired from a real setup, to provide realistic insights on the advantages this kind of approaches can provide. As will be seen, deferred parallel redundancy provides clear advantages in terms of the worst-case transmission latency, at limited costs concerning the amount of consumed spectrum. Hence, it can be practically exploited every time a wireless connection is included in a control loop.
title Performance Evaluation of Parallel Wi-Fi Redundancy with Deferral Techniques
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03569