networks//network theory

Concepts that hold for any network regardless of the protocol on the wire: how protocols stack in layers (protocol stack), what it means for a network to be predictable and not merely fast (determinism), and how publish-subscribe decouples the parties that exchange data (publish-subscribe).

Concepts that hold for any network regardless of the protocol on the wire: how protocols stack in layers (protocol stack), what it means for a network to be predictable and not merely fast (determinism), and how publish-subscribe decouples the parties that exchange data (publish-subscribe).

Concrete standards live under network protocols; the plant-specific ones under fieldbus and industrial Ethernet.