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Emerging Technologies in Industrial Communication II
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Emerging Technologies in Industrial Communication II

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 10182

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Stefano Rinaldi

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Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Interests: instrumentation and measurement; industrial real-time network; wireless sensor network; smart sensors; communication systems for smart grids; time synchronization; Linux-embedded programming; embedded systems; power quality; smart grids; energy systems; smart building; energy management system; electric vehicles; vehicle-to-vehicle communication
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Dr. Gaetano Patti

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Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy
Interests: real-time industrial networks; automotive networks; wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs); powerline communications and networks for mobile robotics applications
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,
Industrial communication is facing one of the most important transformation of the last decades. Approaches, such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), one of the key technology driving the so called Industry 4.0 paradigm, are pushing industrial communication to their limits. Yet-to-come services will be offered in the automation scenario by industrial devices through a pervasive internet connection for pushing data into cloud systems. Currently, most efforts are in the design and development of solutions enabling horizontal interoperability among different applications domains. With respect to traditional IoT applications, time-related performance are still fundamental in IIoT. Consider for example, motion control applications. In such a domain, the real-time behaviour of the communication system, and time synchronization mechanisms, are necessary preconditions. At the same time, the IoT approach in the industrial automation world, is paving the way to innovative services for improving efficiency, reliability and availability of industrial processes and products. The IIoT takes advantage of the collection of large amount of data by means of (wireless) links connecting smart sensors attached to the system of interest.

This issue welcomes theoretical papers, methodological studies and empirical research (or combination thereof) on the time synchronization mechanism in industrial applications, industrial internet of things, wireless sensor network, reliability and availability, protocols, algorithms and scheduling mechanisms to fulfil timing and reliability requirements dictated by industrial applications.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Industrial Internet of Thing,
  • Cyber Physical Systems,
  • Distributed measurement systems,
  • Time synchronization mechanisms,
  • Real-time indoor localization systems,
  • Performance evaluation and modelling of communication systems and architectures,
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN),
  • Cloud and Fog computing in future factories,
  • Real-time communication standards,
  • Deterministic medium access schemes and real-time scheduling,
  • In-vehicle real-time communications,
  • Cooperating robot sensor networks.

Dr. Stefano Rinaldi
Dr. Gaetano Patti
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Keywords

  • Industrial Internet of Thing
  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Distributed measurement systems
  • Time synchronization mechanisms
  • Real-time indoor localization systems
  • Performance evaluation and modelling of communication systems and architectures
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Cloud and Fog computing in future factories
  • Real-time communication standards
  • Deterministic medium access schemes and real-time scheduling
  • In-vehicle real-time communications
  • Cooperating robot sensor networks

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Multi-Domain Time-Sensitive Networks—Control Plane Mechanisms for Dynamic Inter-Domain Stream Configuration
by Martin Böhm and Diederich Wermser
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2477; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202477 - 12 Oct 2021
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Inter-domain communication in time-sensitive networks (TSN) has been identified as a requirement for various use cases. The TSN Toolbox provides standards for dynamic stream reservations, which is needed for, e.g., batch size 1 production, but these standards do not support the interaction on [...] Read more.
Inter-domain communication in time-sensitive networks (TSN) has been identified as a requirement for various use cases. The TSN Toolbox provides standards for dynamic stream reservations, which is needed for, e.g., batch size 1 production, but these standards do not support the interaction on the control plane between multiple TSN domains. This paper presents control plane mechanisms for multi-domain time sensitive networks (MDTSNs) integrating an east–westbound protocol in the existing TSN control plane, in order to achieve multi-domain on-demand end-to-end bounded-latency TSN streams. Solutions for issues resulting from MDTSN, particularly the inter-domain forwarding offset, are presented. A proof of concept has been implemented and evaluated in a physical MDTSN test environment in order to prove the viability of the mechanisms developed. Full article
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Optimization of the AODV-Based Packet Forwarding Mechanism for BLE Mesh Networks
by Muhammad Rizwan Ghori, Tat-Chee Wan, Gian Chand Sodhy and Amna Rizwan
Electronics 2021, 10(18), 2274; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182274 - 16 Sep 2021
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The standard Bluetooth Low-Energy mesh networks assume the use of flooding for multihop communications. The flooding approach causes network overheads and delays due to continuous message broadcasting in the absence of a routing mechanism. Among the routing protocols, AODV is one of the [...] Read more.
The standard Bluetooth Low-Energy mesh networks assume the use of flooding for multihop communications. The flooding approach causes network overheads and delays due to continuous message broadcasting in the absence of a routing mechanism. Among the routing protocols, AODV is one of the most popular and robust routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks. In this paper, we optimized the AODV protocol for Bluetooth Low-Energy communication to make it more efficient in comparison to the mesh protocol. With the proposed protocol (Optimized AODV (O-AODV)), we were able to achieve lower overheads, end-to-end delay, and average per-hop one-way delay in comparison to the BLE mesh (flooding) protocol and AODV protocol for all three scenarios (linear topology with ten nodes, multipath topology with six and ten nodes). In addition, the proposed protocol exhibited practically constant route requests and route reply setup times. Furthermore, the proposed protocol demonstrated a better Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) for O-AODV (84%) in comparison to AODV (71%), but lower than the PDR of the mesh (flooding) protocol with 93%. Full article
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Assessments of Real-Time Communications over TSN Automotive Networks
by Lucia Lo Bello, Gaetano Patti and Giancarlo Vasta
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 556; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050556 - 26 Feb 2021
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The IEEE 802.1Q-2018 standard embeds in Ethernet bridges novel features that are very important for automated driving, such as the support for time-driven communications. However, cars move in a world where unpredictable events may occur and determine unforeseen situations. To properly react to [...] Read more.
The IEEE 802.1Q-2018 standard embeds in Ethernet bridges novel features that are very important for automated driving, such as the support for time-driven communications. However, cars move in a world where unpredictable events may occur and determine unforeseen situations. To properly react to such situations, the in-car communication system has to support event-driven transmissions with very low and bounded delays. This work provides the performance evaluation of EDSched, a traffic management scheme for IEEE 802.1Q bridges and end nodes that introduces explicit support for event-driven real-time traffic. EDSched works at the MAC layer and builds upon the mechanisms defined in the IEEE 802.1Q-2018 standard. Full article
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