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(Main)Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 5-4: Application layer service definition - Type 4 elements (IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 5-4: Application layer service definition - Type 4 elements (IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
1.1 General
The fieldbus application layer (FAL) provides user programs with a means to access the
fieldbus communication environment. In this respect, the FAL can be viewed as a “window
between corresponding application programs.”
This standard provides common elements for basic time-critical and non-time-critical
messaging communications between application programs in an automation environment and
material specific to Type 4 fieldbus. The term “time-critical” is used to represent the presence
of a time-window, within which one or more specified actions are required to be completed
with some defined level of certainty. Failure to complete specified actions within the time
window risks failure of the applications requesting the actions, with attendant risk to
equipment, plant and possibly human life.
This standard defines in an abstract way the externally visible service provided by the Type 4
fieldbus application layer in terms of
a) an abstract model for defining application resources (objects) capable of being
manipulated by users via the use of the FAL service,
b) the primitive actions and events of the service;
c) the parameters associated with each primitive action and event, and the form which they
take; and
d) the interrelationship between these actions and events, and their valid sequences.
The purpose of this standard is to define the services provided to
1) the FAL user at the boundary between the user and the application layer of the fieldbus
reference model, and
2) Systems Management at the boundary between the application layer and Systems
Management of the fieldbus reference model.
This standard specifies the structure and services of the Type 4 fieldbus application layer, in
conformance with the OSI Basic Reference Model (ISO/IEC 7498-1) and the OSI application
layer structure (ISO/IEC 9545).
FAL services and protocols are provided by FAL application-entities (AE) contained within the
application processes. The FAL AE is composed of a set of object-oriented application service
elements (ASEs) and a layer management entity (LME) that manages the AE. The ASEs
provide communication services that operate on a set of related application process object
(APO) classes. One of the FAL ASEs is a management ASE that provides a common set of
services for the management of the instances of FAL classes.
Although these services specify, from the perspective of applications, how request and
responses are issued and delivered, they do not include a specification of what the requesting
and responding applications are to do with them. That is, the behavioral aspects of the
applications are not specified; only a definition of what requests and responses they can
Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze - Feldbusse - Teil 5-4: Dienstfestlegungen des Application Layer (Anwendungsschicht) - Typ 4-Elemente (IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
Réseaux de communication industriels - Spécifications des bus de terrain - Partie 5-4: Définition des services de la couche application - Eléments de type 4 (CEI 61158-5-4:2014)
L'IEC 61158-5-4:2014 défini les services mis en place pour l'utilisateur de FAL, à la frontière entre l'utilisateur et la couche application du modèle de référence de bus de terrain; et la Gestion des systèmes, à la frontière entre la couche application et la Gestion des systèmes selon le modèle de référence de bus de terrain. La présente norme spécifie la structure et les services de la couche application de bus de terrain IEC, en conformité avec le modèle de référence de base de l'OSI (ISO/CEI 7498-1) et la structure de la couche application de l'OSI (ISO/CEI 9545). Cette deuxième édition annule et remplace la première édition parue en 2007. Elle constitue une révision éditoriale.
Industrijska komunikacijska omrežja - Specifikacije za procesna vodila - 5-4. del: Definicija opravil na aplikacijski ravni - Elementi tipa 4 (IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
1.1 General
Aplikacijski nivo procesnih vodil (FAL) omogoča uporabniškim programom dostop do komunikacijskega okolja procesnih vodil. Glede na to je mogoče aplikacijski nivo procesnih vodil obravnavati kot »okno med ustreznimi aplikacijami«.
Ta standard določa skupne elemente za osnovne časovno kritične in časovno nekritične sporočilne komunikacije med aplikacijami v avtomatizacijskem okolju in material, specifičen za procesna vodila tipa 4. Izraz »časovno kritičen« se uporablja za predstavitev prisotnosti časovnega okna, v okviru katerega se zahteva dokončanje enega ali več opredeljenih dejanj z določeno stopnjo gotovosti. Zaradi neuspešnega dokončanja opredeljenih dejanj v časovnem oknu je možna odpoved aplikacij, ki zahtevajo dejanja, pri čemer so ogroženi oprema, obrat in morda človeška življenja.
Ta standard na abstrakten način določa na zunaj vidno opravilo, ki ga zagotavlja aplikacijski nivo procesnih vodil tipa 4 v smislu
a) abstraktnega modela za določanje aplikacijskih virov (objektov), ki ga lahko upravljajo uporabniki prek opravila aplikacijskega nivoja procesnih vodil,
b) primitivnih dejanj in dogodkov opravila;
c) parametrov, povezanih z vsakim primitivnim dejanjem in dogodkom, ter obliko, ki jo prevzamejo; in
d) medsebojne povezave med temi dejanji in dogodki ter njihovimi veljavnimi zaporedji.
Namen tega standarda je določiti opravila, ki se zagotavljajo za
1) uporabnika FAL na meji med uporabnikom in aplikacijskim nivojem referenčnega procesnega vmesnika, in
2) upravljanje sistemov na meji med aplikacijskim nivojem in upravljanjem sistemov za referenčni model procesnega vodila.
Ta standard določa strukturo in opravila aplikacijskega nivoja procesnih vodil tipa 4 v skladu z osnovnim referenčnim modelom OSI (ISO/IEC 7498-1) in strukturo aplikacijskega nivoja OSI (ISO/IEC 9545).
Opravila in protokole aplikacijskega nivoja procesnih vodil zagotavljajo aplikacijski osebki (AE) aplikacijskega nivoja procesnih vodil znotraj aplikacijskih procesov. Aplikacijski osebek aplikacijskega nivoja procesnih vodil sestavljata sklop objektno usmerjenih aplikacijskih opravilnih elementov (ASE) in osebek za upravljanje nivojev (LME), ki upravlja aplikacijski osebek. Aplikacijski opravilni elementi zagotavljajo komunikacijska opravila, ki delujejo na sklopu povezanih razredov objektov aplikacijskega procesa (APO). Med aplikacijske opravilne elemente aplikacijskega nivoja procesnih vodil spada aplikacijski opravilni element za upravljanje, ki zagotavlja skupen sklop opravil za upravljanje primerkov razredov aplikacijskega nivoja procesnih vodil.
Čeprav ta opravila določajo način izdajanja in dostavljanja zahtev in odzivov z vidika aplikacij, ne zajemajo specifikacije v zvezi s tem, kako naj se nanje odzovejo aplikacije, ki te zahteve in odzive oddajajo. To pomeni, da vedenjski vidiki aplikacij niso opredeljeni; opredeljena je le definicija zahtev in odzivov, ki jih lahko pošiljajo/prejemajo.
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 61158-5-4:2015
01-marec-2015
Industrijska komunikacijska omrežja - Specifikacije za procesna vodila - 5-4. del:
Definicija opravil na aplikacijski ravni - Elementi tipa 4 (IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 5-4: Application layer
service definition - Type 4 elements (IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze - Feldbusse - Teil 5-4: Dienstfestlegungen des
Application Layer (Anwendungsschicht) - Typ 4-Elemente (IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
Réseaux de communication industriels - Spécifications des bus de terrain - Partie 5-4:
Définition des services de la couche application - Eléments de type 4 (CEI 61158-5-
4:2014)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61158-5-4:2014
ICS:
25.040.40 Merjenje in krmiljenje Industrial process
industrijskih postopkov measurement and control
35.100.70 Uporabniški sloj Application layer
35.110 Omreževanje Networking
SIST EN 61158-5-4:2015 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61158-5-4
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
October 2014
ICS 25.040.40; 35.100.70; 35.110 Supersedes EN 61158-5-4:2008
English Version
Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications -
Part 5-4: Application layer service definition - Type 4 elements
(IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
Réseaux de communication industriels - Spécifications des Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze - Feldbusse -
bus de terrain - Partie 5-4: Définition des services de la Teil 5-4: Dienstfestlegungen des Application Layer
couche application - Eléments de type 4 (Anwendungsschicht) - Typ 4-Elemente
(CEI 61158-5-4:2014) (IEC 61158-5-4:2014)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2014-09-22. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
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Foreword
The text of document 65C/763/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 61158-5-4, prepared by
SC 65C “Industrial networks” of IEC/TC 65 “Industrial-process measurement, control and automation"
was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN 61158-5-4:2014.
The following dates are fixed:
(dop) 2015-06-22
• latest date by which the document has to be
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national (dow) 2017-09-22
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 61158-5-4:2008.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such
patent rights.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CENELEC by the European Commission
and the European Free Trade Association.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61158-5-4:2014 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:
IEC 61158-1:2014 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61158-1:2014 (not modified).
IEC 61784-1:2014 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61784-1:2014 (not modified).
1)
IEC 61784-2:2014 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61784-2 (not modified).
1)
To be published.
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
2)
IEC 61158-3-4 2014 Industrial communication networks - EN 61158-3-4 -
Fieldbus specifications -
Part 3-4: Data-link layer service definition -
Type 4 elements
2)
IEC 61158-4-4 2014 Industrial communication networks - EN 61158-4-4 -
Fieldbus specifications -
Part 4-4: Data-link layer protocol
specification - Type 4 elements
2)
IEC 61158-6-4 2014 Industrial communication networks - EN 61158-6-4 -
Fieldbus specifications -
Part 6-4: Application layer protocol
specification - Type 4 elements
IEC 61158-6 Series Industrial communication networks - EN 61158-6 Series
Fieldbus specifications -
Part 6: Application layer protocol
specification
ISO/IEC 7498-1 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Basic reference model:
The basic model
ISO/IEC 7498-3 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Basic reference model:
Naming and addressing
ISO/IEC 8822 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Presentation service
definition
ISO/IEC 8824-1 - Information technology - Abstract Syntax - -
Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of
basic notation
ISO/IEC 9545 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Application layer
structure
2)
To be published.
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Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
ISO/IEC 10731 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Basic Reference Model -
Conventions for the definition of OSI
services
ISO/IEC/IEEE - Information technology - Microprocessor - -
60559 Systems - Floating-Point arithmetic
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 7
1.1 General . 7
1.2 Specifications . 8
1.3 Conformance . 8
2 Normative references . 8
3 Terms and definitions . 9
3.1 ISO/IEC 7498-1 terms . 9
3.2 ISO/IEC 8822 terms . 9
3.3 ISO/IEC 9545 terms . 9
3.4 ISO/IEC 8824-1 terms . 10
3.5 Fieldbus data-link layer terms . 10
3.6 Fieldbus application layer specific definitions . 10
3.7 Abbreviations and symbols . 16
3.8 Conventions . 17
4 Concepts . 20
4.1 Overview . 20
4.2 Architectural relationships . 21
4.3 Fieldbus Application Layer structure . 23
4.4 Fieldbus Application Layer naming and addressing . 35
4.5 Architecture summary . 35
4.6 FAL service procedures . 36
4.7 Common FAL attributes . 37
4.8 Common FAL service parameters . 37
4.9 APDU size . 38
5 Type 4 communication model specification . 38
5.1 Concepts . 38
5.2 Variable ASE . 45
5.3 Application relationship ASE . 64
Bibliography . 71
Figure 1 – Relationship to the OSI basic reference model . 21
Figure 2 – Architectural positioning of the fieldbus Application Layer . 22
Figure 3 – Client/server interactions . 24
Figure 4 – Pull model interactions . 25
Figure 5 – Push model interactions . 26
Figure 6 – APOs services conveyed by the FAL . 27
Figure 7 – Application entity structure . 29
Figure 8 – Example FAL ASEs . 30
Figure 9 – FAL management of objects . 31
Figure 10 – ASE service conveyance . 32
Figure 11 – Defined and established AREPs . 34
Figure 12 – FAL architectural components . 36
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Figure 13 – FAL AE . 39
Figure 14 – Summary of the FAL architecture . 42
Figure 15 – FAL service procedure overview. 43
Figure 16 – Time sequence diagram for the confirmed services . 44
Figure 17 – Time sequence diagram for unconfirmed services . 45
Table 1 – REQUEST service parameters . 60
Table 2 – RESPONSE service parameters . 61
Table 3 – Error codes by source . 62
Table 4 – Reserve REP service parameters . 62
Table 5 – Free AREP service parameters . 63
Table 6 – Get REP attribute service parameters . 63
Table 7 – Set REP attribute service parameters . 64
Table 8 – AR send service parameters . 68
Table 9 – AR acknowledge service parameters . 68
Table 10 – AR get attributes service parameters . 69
Table 11 – AR set attributes service parameters . 69
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This edition includes the following significant changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) editorial improvements;
b) editorial corrections.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
65C/763/FDIS 65C/773/RVD
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INTRODUCTION
This part of IEC 61158 is one of a series produced to facilitate the interconnection of
automation system components. It is related to other standards in the set as defined by the
“three-layer” fieldbus reference model described in IEC 61158-1.
The application service is provided by the application protocol making use of the services
available from the data-link or other immediately lower layer. This standard defines the
application service characteristics that fieldbus applications and/or system management may
exploit.
Throughout the set of fieldbus standards, the term “service” refers to the abstract capability
provided by one layer of the OSI Basic Reference Model to the layer immediately above.
Thus, the application layer service defined in this standard is a conceptual architectural
service, independent of administrative and implementation divisions.
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1 Scope
1.1 General
The fieldbus application layer (FAL) provides user programs with a means to access the
fieldbus communication environment. In this respect, the FAL can be viewed as a “window
between corresponding application programs.”
This standard provides common elements for basic time-critical and non-time-critical
messaging communications between application programs in an automation environment and
material specific to Type 4 fieldbus. The term “time-critical” is used to represent the presence
of a time-window, within which one or more specified actions are required to be completed
with some defined level of certainty. Failure to complete specified actions within the time
window risks failure of the applications requesting the actions, with attendant risk to
equipment, plant and possibly human life.
This standard defines in an abstract way the externally visible service provided by the Type 4
fieldbus application layer in terms of
a) an abstract model for defining application resources (objects) capable of being
manipulated by users via the use of the FAL service,
b) the primitive actions and events of the service;
c) the parameters associated with each primitive action and event, and the form which they
take; and
d) the interrelationship between these actions and events, and their valid sequences.
The purpose of this standard is to define the services provided to
1) the FAL user at the boundary between the user and the application layer of the fieldbus
reference model, and
2) Systems Management at the boundary between the application layer and Systems
Management of the fieldbus reference model.
This standard specifies the structure and services of the Type 4 fieldbus application layer, in
conformance with the OSI Basic Reference Model (ISO/IEC 7498-1) and the OSI application
layer structure (ISO/IEC 9545).
FAL services and protocols are provided by FAL application-entities (AE) contained within the
application processes. The FAL AE is composed of a set of object-oriented application service
elements (ASEs) and a layer management entity (LME) that manages the AE. The ASEs
provide communication services that operate on a set of related application process object
(APO) classes. One of the FAL ASEs is a management ASE that provides a common set of
services for the management of the instances of FAL classes.
Although these services specify, from the perspective of applications, how request and
responses are issued and delivered, they do not include a specification of what the requesting
and responding applications are to do with them. That is, the behavioral aspects of the
applications are not specified; only a definition of what requests and responses they can
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send/receive is specified. This permits greater flexibility to the FAL users in standardizing
such object behavior. In addition to these services, some supporting services are also defined
in this standard to provide access to the FAL to control certain aspects of its operation.
1.2 Specifications
The principal objective of this standard is to specify the characteristics of conceptual
application layer services suitable for time-critical communications, and thus supplement the
OSI Basic Reference Model in guiding the development of application layer protocols for time-
critical communications.
A secondary objective is to provide migration paths from previously-existing industrial
communications protocols. It is this latter objective which gives rise to the diversity of services
standardized as the various Types of IEC 61158, and the corresponding protocols
standardized in IEC 61158-6 series.
This specification may be used as the basis for formal application programming interfaces.
Nevertheless, it is not a formal programming interface, and any such interface will need to
address implementation issues not covered by this specification, including
a) the sizes and octet ordering of various multi-octet service parameters, and
b) the correlation of paired request and confirm, or indication and response, primitives.
1.3 Conformance
This standard does not specify individual implementations or products, nor does it constrain
the implementations of application layer entities within industrial automation systems.
There is no conformance of equipment to this application layer service definition standard.
Instead, conformance is achieved through implementation of conforming application layer
protocols that fulfill the Type 2 application layer services as defined in this standard.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and
are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any
amendments) applies.
NOTE All parts of the IEC 61158 series, as well as IEC 61784-1 and IEC 61784-2 are maintained simultaneously.
Cross-references to these documents within the text therefore refer to the editions as dated in this list of normative
references.
IEC 61158-3-4:2014, Industrial communication networks – Fieldbus specifications – Part 3-4:
Data-link layer service definition – Type 4 elements
IEC 61158-4-4:2014, Industrial communication networks – Fieldbus specifications – Part 4-4:
Data-link layer protocol specification – Type 4 elements
IEC 61158-6-4:2014, Industrial communication networks – Fieldbus specifications – Part 6-4:
Application layer protocol specification – Type 4 elements
IEC 61158-6 (all subparts), Industrial communication networks – Fieldbus specifications –
Part 6: Application layer protocol specification
ISO/IEC 7498-1, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Basic Reference
Model – Part 1: The Basic Model
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SIST EN 61158-5-4:2015
IEC 61158-5-4:2014 © IEC 2014 – 9 –
ISO/IEC 7498-3, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Basic Reference
Model – Part 3: Naming and addressing
ISO/IEC 8822, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Presentation
service definition
ISO/IEC 8824-1, Information technology – Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1):
Specification of basic notation
ISO/IEC 9545, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Application Layer
structure
ISO/IEC 10731, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Basic Referen
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