Industrial Communication Systems and Their Future Challenges: Next-Generation Ethernet, IIoT, and 5G
By Stefano Vitturi, Claudio Zunino, Thilo Sauter. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019
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Industrial communication systems represent one of the most important innovations of the last decades in the context of factory and process automation systems. They are networks specifically designed to cope with the tight requirements of these challenging application fields such as real time, determinism, and reliability. Moreover, industrial networks are often deployed in environments characterized by strong electromagnetic interference, mechanical stress, critical temperature, and humidity. Over the last three decades, different classes of industrial networks have been developed according to changing requirements and available communication and information technologies. In this paper, we first provide an account of the state of the art, reviewing classical fieldbuses, real-time Ethernet networks, and industrial wireless networks, along with their most relevant features, applications, and performance figures. We introduce the complex standardization framework and analyze the market status and assumptions for future development. In the second part, we address the future perspectives focusing on new technologies, standards, and fields of application. In particular, we consider the time-sensitive networking (TSN) family of standards, Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) systems, high-performance wireless LANs, industrial applications of cellular networks, and Ethernet networks for automotive communication.
Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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- Edge Computing in Industrial Internet of Things: Architecture, Advances and Challenges (2020, background): “The wired mode in an IIoT network is more stable, while the wireless mode is developing slowly, owing to a low transmission rate and poor stability [108], [109].”
- Communicating With Large Intelligent Surfaces: Fundamental Limits and Models (2019, background): “This will allow to meet ultra-reliability, high capacity densities, extremely low-latency and low-energy consumption requirements posed by emerging application scenarios such as Industrial Internet of Things in Factories of the Future [1], [2].”