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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2016
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Ermin Sakic, Munich, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Method for operating a communication network that includes a communication devices and form part of an industrial automation system, wherein control units control functions of associated communication devices, where a prescribable proportion of system resources of an associated communication device is provide for a prescribable resource use duration for each control unit, when prescribable synchronization events occur, the control units synchronously detect state variables of the communication devices and adjust them to one another, the control units additionally determine, for at least one past resource use duration, how a determination time available for a path determination influences quality criterion changes for communication network paths to be determined, and determine a first correction value synchronization events based on the quality criterion changes, and the control units determine a second correction value for the synchronization events if inconsistent state variables are determined when the state variables are adjusted to one another.