Authors: Xiaomin Li Di Li Jiafu Wan Athanasios V Vasilakos ChinFeng Lai Shiyong Wang
Publish Date: 2015/11/26
Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-41
Abstract
There have been many recent advances in wireless communication technologies particularly in the area of wireless sensor networks which have undergone rapid development and been successfully applied in the consumer electronics market Therefore wireless networks WNs have been attracting more attention from academic communities and other domains From an industrial perspective WNs present many advantages including flexibility low cost easy deployment and so on Therefore WNs can play a vital role in the Industry 40 framework and can be used for smart factories and intelligent manufacturing systems In this paper we present an overview of industrial WNs IWNs discuss IWN features and related techniques and then provide a new architecture based on quality of service and quality of data for IWNs We also propose some applications for IWNs and IWN standards Then we will use a case from our previous achievements to explain how to design an IWN under Industry 40 Finally we highlight some of the design challenges and open issues that still need to be addressed to make IWNs truly ubiquitous for a wide range of applicationsThis work is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundations of China Nos 61572220 61262013 and 51575194 the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities No 2015ZZ079 the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China No 2015BAF20B01 the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province China 2015A030308002 the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province China Nos 2015B010101005 2012A010702004 and 2012A090100012 and Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou City No 201508030007
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