학술논문

A Smart Retransmission Mechanism for Ultra-Reliable Applications in Industrial Wireless Networks
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf. Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on. 19(2):1988-1996 Feb, 2023
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Reliability
Industrial Internet of Things
Wireless communication
Delays
Production
Safety
Wireless sensor networks
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
mission-critical applications
service protection
Language
ISSN
1551-3203
1941-0050
Abstract
Emerging mission-critical industrial applications pose serious challenges to the reliability of the industrial networks currently. Heterogeneous wireless terminals access the network through various industrial gateways, but the vulnerability of edge links hinders the safe operation on the site. Existing service protection methods of wireless links satisfy reliability requirements through naive redundancy mechanisms. However, these methods are difficult to ensure the long-term safety of industrial applications and consume excessive energy. Therefore, this article proposed an on-demand service protection (OSP) mechanism, which can retransmit data on time to meet reliability demands intelligently. First, a long-term reliability model and an energy consumption optimization problem are formulated. Second, we introduced a flexible module inside the industrial gateway to identify various requirements and detect crucial data loss events. Then, an intelligent agent is designed to avoid unexpected data loss, which can generate a retransmission policy according to application requirements. Finally, multiple validations on the OSP were conducted. Both numerical results and prototype experiments illustrate that the proposed solution outperforms existing candidates in terms of reliability and energy consumption.