Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages 5419-5427Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2018.2839721
Keywords
Communication networks; cyber-physical systems; industrial communication; Industry 4.0; Internet of Things (IoT); network slicing
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- European Research Council (Horizon 2020 ERC Consolidator Grant) [648382 WILLOW]
- Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science (EliteForsk Award) [5137-00073B]
- Federal Ministry for Education and Research within the project Future Industrial Network Architecture [16KIS0571]
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Industry 4.0 introduces modern communication and computation technologies such as cloud computing and Internet of Things to industrial manufacturing systems. As a result, many devices, machines, and applications will rely on connectivity, while having different requirements to the network, ranging from high reliability and low latency to high data rates. Furthermore, these industrial networks will be highly heterogeneous, as they will feature a number of diverse communication technologies. Current technologies are not well suited for this scenario, which requires that the network is managed at an abstraction level, which is decoupled from the underlying technologies. In this paper, we consider network slicing as a mechanism to handle these challenges. We present methods for slicing deterministic and packet-switched industrial communication protocols, which simplify the manageability of heterogeneous networks with various application requirements. Furthermore, we show how to use network calculus to assess the end-to-end properties of the network slices.
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