Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Wireless communication is evolving to support critical control in automation systems. The fifth-generation (5G) mobile network air interface New Radio adopts a scalable numerology and mini-slot transmission for short packets that make it potentially suitable for critical control systems. The reliable minimum cycle time is an important indicator for industrial communication techniques but has not yet been investigated within 5G. To address such a question, this article considers 5G-based industrial networks and uses the delay optimization based on data-driven channel characterization (CCDO) approach to propose a method to evaluate the reliable minimum cycle time of 5G. Numerical results in three representative industrial environments indicate that following the CCDO approach, 5G-based industrial networks can achieve, in real-world scenario, millisecond-level minimum cycle time to support several hundred nodes with reliability higher than 99.9999%.
Institutions: ABB (Sweden), KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $1,933
OpenAlex ID: W3188227199