An in-vehicle network system includes a power source, an upper electronic control unit (ECU), a first intermediate ECU and a second intermediate ECU, at least one first lower ECU and at least one second lower ECU, a power source relay, and a communication relay provided between the first communication path and the second communication path. When the upper ECU detects that an anomaly occurs in the first intermediate ECU, the power source relay and the communication relay are controlled such that a first power source path and a second power source path are connected to each other and a first communication path and a second communication path are connected to each other, and the second intermediate ECU performs electric power supply to and communication management of the first lower ECU.

A method for data communication between subscribers of an automation system includes a first passive subscriber and a second passive subscriber receiving a write request sent by an active subscriber, determining a first transmission time point for transmitting a first reply message by the first passive subscriber, transmitting the first reply message at the first transmission time, and receiving the first reply message. The method also includes determining a second transmission time for transmitting a second reply message by the second passive subscriber, transmitting the second reply message at the second transmission time, receiving the second reply message, and interpreting the first reply message and the second reply message as segments of a data packet.

The disclosure relates to a device for the wireless transmission of a signal transmitted from a sensor to a supply apparatus (for example a control system) via at least one line, having electrical connections for the line and having an electronic transmitter apparatus that has an electronic circuit for tapping the signal and a transmitter with which the tapped signal can be wirelessly transmitted. The device is in the form of a plug adapter that has a plug housing, wherein a first plug part and a second plug part are attached to the plug housing, wherein the first plug part is connected to the second plug part via at least one signal conductor arranged within the plug housing for wired transmission of the signal, and wherein the electronic transmitter apparatus is arranged in the plug housing in order to tap off the signal.

An in-vehicle network system includes an upper device, a first intermediate device, and a first lower device. The first intermediate device includes a first communication unit and a second communication unit that are arranged redundantly and that have a communication function. The first intermediate device is configured to communicate with the upper device via a plurality of communication paths. The first lower device is connected to the first communication unit and the second communication unit of the first intermediate device.

Described is a differential data bus system which maintains error free communication despite faults in one of the data bus lines.

A frame is divided, and is then transferred on a communication protocol having a different frame size. Provided is a vehicle control device configured to transfer data through a first communication path for transferring data having a low priority and a second communication path for transferring data having a high priority, the second communication path having a transfer speed different from that of the first communication path. First transfer data transferable on the first communication path has a data size different from that of second transfer data transferrable on the second communication path. The second communication path allows at least two types of transfer data to be transmitted and received thereon. When the first transfer data is divided and is then transferred on the second communication path, the data is transferred by controlling at least one of a division size, the number of divisions, or a transfer timing of the first transfer data based on a timing cycle for transferring the second transfer data, a vacant time having no transfer, and a transfer time of the first transfer data on the second communication path.

In a distributed control system including a central communication device, terminal communication devices to which target devices to be controlled are connected, and a network including multiple communication paths connecting the central communication device and terminal communication devices, each terminal communication device includes a calculation input/output performance storage unit storing input/output performance of a calculation unit for controlling the target devices to be controlled and a control input/output performance storage unit storing the performance of the input/output control units of the target devices to be controlled, and the central communication device collects input/output performance information previously stored in these storage units, determines communication paths of the terminal communication units and a packet division method in such a manner that an amount of a communication data of a network and response performance requested of the distributed control system are satisfied, on the basis of the collected input/output performance information and sets the determination results in the terminal communication devices.

An apparatus may include a pipeline circuit configured to process packets and an authentication engine configured to authenticate packets and to provide an authentication signal to the pipeline circuit based on whether packets have been authenticated. The apparatus may further include a control circuit configured to route a given incoming packet to both the authentication engine and to a bypass path. The bypass path may be configured to provide a copy of the given incoming packet to the pipeline circuit to bypass the authentication engine.

A communication system includes: a receiving device configured to receive data, and repeatedly set a time range; and a transmitting device configured to repeatedly transmit data to the receiving device at a first time interval, and change a transmission interval at which data is transmitted to the receiving device to a second time interval, which is different from the first time interval, if the number of pieces of data received by the receiving device within the time range is 2 or more.

A method for data communication in a serial LIN bus system that is used to transmit LIN information between a LIN master and LIN slaves includes transmitting the LIN information between the LIN master and the identical LIN slaves via respective data line that run between each of the identical LIN slaves and the LIN master.