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Wireless industrial monitoring and control networks: the journey so far and the road ahead
While traditional wired communication technologies have played a crucial role in industrial monitoring and control networks over the past few decades, they are increasingly proving to be inadequate to meet the highly dynamic and stringent demands of today’s industrial applications, primarily due to the very rigid nature of wired infrastructures. Wireless technology, however, through its increased pervasiveness, has the potential to revolutionize the industry, not only by mitigating the problems faced by wired solutions, but also by introducing a completely new class of applications. While present day wireless technologies made some preliminary inroads in the monitoring domain, they still have severe limitations especially when real-time, reliable distributed control operations are concerned. This article provides the reader with an overview of existing wireless technologies commonly used in the monitoring and control industry. It highlights the pros and cons of each technology and assesses the degree to which each technology is able to meet the stringent demands of industrial monitoring and control networks. Additionally, it summarizes mechanisms proposed by academia, especially serving critical applications by addressing the real-time and reliability requirements of industrial process automation. The article also describes certain key research problems from the physical layer communication for sensor networks and the wireless networking perspective that have yet to be addressed to allow the successful use of wireless technologies in industrial monitoring and control networks
CASPR: Judiciously Using the Cloud for Wide-Area Packet Recovery
We revisit a classic networking problem -- how to recover from lost packets
in the best-effort Internet. We propose CASPR, a system that judiciously
leverages the cloud to recover from lost or delayed packets. CASPR supplements
and protects best-effort connections by sending a small number of coded packets
along the highly reliable but expensive cloud paths. When receivers detect
packet loss, they recover packets with the help of the nearby data center, not
the sender, thus providing quick and reliable packet recovery for
latency-sensitive applications. Using a prototype implementation and its
deployment on the public cloud and the PlanetLab testbed, we quantify the
benefits of CASPR in providing fast, cost effective packet recovery. Using
controlled experiments, we also explore how these benefits translate into
improvements up and down the network stack
Latency Bounds of Packet-Based Fronthaul for Cloud-RAN with Functionality Split
The emerging Cloud-RAN architecture within the fifth generation (5G) of
wireless networks plays a vital role in enabling higher flexibility and
granularity. On the other hand, Cloud-RAN architecture introduces an additional
link between the central, cloudified unit and the distributed radio unit,
namely fronthaul (FH). Therefore, the foreseen reliability and latency for 5G
services should also be provisioned over the FH link. In this paper, focusing
on Ethernet as FH, we present a reliable packet-based FH communication and
demonstrate the upper and lower bounds of latency that can be offered. These
bounds yield insights into the trade-off between reliability and latency, and
enable the architecture design through choice of splitting point, focusing on
high layer split between PDCP and RLC and low layer split between MAC and PHY,
under different FH bandwidth and traffic properties. Presented model is then
analyzed both numerically and through simulation, with two classes of 5G
services that are ultra reliable low latency (URLL) and enhanced mobile
broadband (eMBB).Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, conference paper (ICC19
Modeling Network Coded TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Validation
We analyze the performance of TCP and TCP with network coding (TCP/NC) in
lossy wireless networks. We build upon the simple framework introduced by
Padhye et al. and characterize the throughput behavior of classical TCP as well
as TCP/NC as a function of erasure rate, round-trip time, maximum window size,
and duration of the connection. Our analytical results show that network coding
masks erasures and losses from TCP, thus preventing TCP's performance
degradation in lossy networks, such as wireless networks. It is further seen
that TCP/NC has significant throughput gains over TCP. In addition, we simulate
TCP and TCP/NC to verify our analysis of the average throughput and the window
evolution. Our analysis and simulation results show very close concordance and
support that TCP/NC is robust against erasures. TCP/NC is not only able to
increase its window size faster but also to maintain a large window size
despite losses within the network, whereas TCP experiences window closing
essentially because losses are mistakenly attributed to congestion.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, submitted to IEEE INFOCOM 201
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