Evaluation of Network Structures and Protocols for Nuclear-Specific Applications

Abstract

The evaluation of industrial implementations of network structures associated with nuclear-specific applications is the main focus of this paper. Establishing numerous network structures currently used in nuclear industry, this project analyzes the functionality and reliability of different structures. The communication structures studied in this paper include Fieldbus and Modbus Communication Protocols, Object Linking and Embedding process control (OPC), Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and Net-DDE. This paper focuses on identifying the potential problems in applying various network structures to nuclear industry to enable a nuclear-specific network structure to be developed for the fast growing nuclear industry.