Towards a Flexible Architecture for Industrial Networking
Abstract
The digitalization of manufacturing processes is expected to lead to a growing interconnection of production sites, as well as machines, tools and work pieces. In the course of this development, new use-cases arise which have challenging requirements from a communication technology point of view. In this paper we propose a communication network architecture for Industry 4.0 applications, which combines new 5G and non-cellular wireless network technologies with existing (wired) fieldbus technologies on the shop floor. This architecture includes the possibility to use private and public mobile networks together with local networking technologies to achieve a flexible setup that addresses many different industrial use cases. It is embedded into the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture and the RAMI4.0 reference architecture. The paper shows how the advancements introduced around the new 5G mobile technology can fulfill a wide range of industry requirements and thus enable new Industry 4.0 applications. Since 5G standardization is still ongoing, the proposed architecture is in a first step mainly focusing on new advanced features in the core network, but will be developed further later.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.04531,
title = {Towards a Flexible Architecture for Industrial Networking},
author = {Michael Karrenbauer and Amina Fellan and Hans D. Schotten and Henning Buhr and Savita Seetaraman and Norbert Niebert and Stephan Ludwig and Anne Bernardy and Vasco Seelmann and Volker Stich and Andreas Hoell and Christian Stimming and Huanzhuo Wu and Simon Wunderlich and Maroua Taghouti and Frank Fitzek and Christoph Pallasch and Nicolai Hoffmann and Werner Herfs and Elena Eberhardt and Thomas Schildknecht},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04531},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceedings of 23th VDE/ITG Conference on Mobile Communication (23. VDE/ITG Fachtagung Mobilkommunikation), Osnabr\"uck, May 2018