Subcommittee on Wireless &
Mobile Networks in Industrial & Factory Automation
Chairs: Orazio Mirabella, University of Catania, Italy; and Andreas Willig,
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Scope: Wireless fieldbus
systems, WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), WPAN (Wireless Personal
Area Network), Ad-hoc networks, Cellular networks, Quality-of-Service
(QoS), Reliability, Radio network and coexistence performance, Medium
Access Control (MAC), Applications
Orazio Mirabella
Orazio Mirabella is Full Professors
of Computer Networks at the Engineering Faculty of the University of
Catania, Italy. He has been Chief of the Educational Activities in the
area of Computer Science and Co-ordinator of the PhD courses on
Computer science and Telecommunications at the University of Catania.
From 1982 Prof. Orazio Mirabella
served as a member of the IEC Sub committee SC65C/WG6 working on the
definition of Standard time-critical Networks. Currently he is member
of IEC Committee SC 65C / WG 12: Functional Safety for Communications.
His main research activities are in
the area of real-time communication systems and hard real-time
process control systems. In such a context he has studied problems
related to the integration of Fieldbusses into process control
systems, has evaluated the ability of Fieldbusses for supporting
communications in industrial plants, and has developed some
scheduling algorithms for process control. He has also studied
problems related to wireless networks and their use into Process
Control Systems with particular reference to Bluetooth and WiFi.
Prof. Orazio Mirabella is
(co)-author of more than 120 scientific papers published on
International Journals and conferences.
Contact email address:
o.mirabella@iestcfa.org
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