Portable Full Channel Sounder for Industrial Wireless Applications With Mobility by Using Sub-Nanosecond Wireless Time Synchronization
Real-time industrial applications in the scope of the industry 4.0. present significant challenges from the communication perspective: low latency, ultra-reliability, and determinism. Given that wireless networks provide a significant cost reduction, lower deployment time, and free movement of the w...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI) |
| Repositorio: | RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/57916 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10651/57916 https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3025896 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | industry 4.0 factory automation wireless TSN 5G |
| Sumario: | Real-time industrial applications in the scope of the industry 4.0. present significant challenges from the communication perspective: low latency, ultra-reliability, and determinism. Given that wireless networks provide a significant cost reduction, lower deployment time, and free movement of the wireless nodes, wireless solutions have attracted the industry attention. However, industrial networks are mostly built by wired means because state-of-the-art wireless networks cannot cope with the industrial applications requirements. In this paper, we present the hardware implementation of wireless SHARP (w-SHARP), a promising wireless technology for real-time industrial applications. w-SHARP follows the principles of Time-Sensitive Networking and provides time synchronization, time-aware scheduling with bounded latency, and high reliability. The implementation has been carried out on a Field Programmable Gate Array-based Software Defined Radio platform. We demonstrate, through a hardware testbed, that w-SHARP is able to provide ultra-low control cycles, low latency, and high reliability. This implementation may open new perspectives in the implementation of high-performance industrial wireless networks, as both PHY and MAC layers are now subject to be optimized for specific industrial applications. |
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