Robert Boschgmbh

Thomas Hogenmueller

Patrick Nickel

Josef Newald

Lambros Dalakuras

A method for operating a communications network that includes a computing system, at least one intermediate control unit, and at least one execution unit for each intermediate control unit. The at least one intermediate control unit is communicatively connected to the computing system using a first communication system. Each of the at least one execution unit is communicatively connected to the associated intermediate control unit using a second communication system, which is a master-slave communication system, and used as a slave. A message configuration table for each second communication system is stored in the computing system, the message configuration table indicating a temporal sequence of data to be transmitted on the second communication system in question. For a communication with one of the execution units, data are sent from the computing system, via the associated intermediate control unit, to the execution unit according to the associated message configuration table.

Method for operating a communication system, communication system, and computing system

A method for operating a communications network that includes at least two users that are communicatively connected to one another via a descriptor-based communication system such as Ethernet. For writing data from a writing user into a user to be written, receive descriptors and data are transmitted from the writing user to the user to be written, in the user to be written, the data being written according to the received receive descriptors, and/or for reading data by a reading user from a user to be read, transmit descriptors are transmitted from the reading user to the user to be read, data being read by the user to be read according to the received transmit descriptors and transmitted to the reading user. A communications network and users are also described.

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Hemmingen, Germany

Thomas Hogenmueller