July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
16h 52m
English
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8.4 Internet-Enabled Systems 417
8.4.1 Internet
The Internet Protocol (IP) [Los97, Sta97A] is the fundamental protocol on
the Inter net. It provides connectionless, packet-based communication. Industrial
automation has long been a good application area for Internet-based embedded sys-
tems. Information appliances that use the Internet are rapidly becoming another
use of IP in embedded computing.
Internet protocol is not defined over a particular physical implementation—it is
an internetworking standard. Internet packets are assumed to be carried by some
other network, such as an Ethernet. In general, an Internet packet will travel over
several differ