A control node (1) for a network (3) of control nodes comprises a transmitter module (12), designed to manage data for sending in an output process layout, to convert the output process layout to a data packet and to release the data packet to the network at a given time. The control node (1) further comprise a receiver module (13), designed to log in for the data packets from one or transmitter modules of further control nodes and to convert a received data packet into an input process layout.
