论文标题
编排5G网络切片以支持工业互联网并塑造下一代智能工厂
Orchestrating 5G Network Slices to Support Industrial Internet and to Shape Next-Generation Smart Factories
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论文摘要
工业4.0旨在通过利用具有提高连接性，感应和致动功能的智能工业设备来利用智能工业设备来震撼当前的制造环境。通过探索对实时生产信息和先进的遥控功能的访问，制造公司的服务承诺为工业运营商和客户提供新颖的价值服务。另一方面，工业网络将面临转型过程，以支持下一代制造过程预期的灵活性，并实现工业间合作。在这种情况下，5G系统可以通过扩展网络切片范式来专门支持工业用例而不是异质域的要求，从而在使行业4.0中发挥关键作用。我们提出了一个基于5G的新型网络切片框架，旨在满足行业4.0的要求。为了将不同的工业站点互连到极端边缘，可以按需实例化不同的逻辑资源片段，以提供所需的端到端连接和处理功能。我们在三种现实的用例中验证了我们提出的框架，这使我们强调了对工业利益相关者的设想收益。
Industry 4.0 aims at shaking the current manufacturing landscape by leveraging the adoption of smart industrial equipment with increased connectivity, sensing, and actuation capabilities. By exploring access to real-time production information and advanced remote control features, servitization of manufacturing firms promises novel added value services for industrial operators and customers. On the other hand, industrial networks would face a transformation process in order to support the flexibility expected by the next-generation manufacturing processes and enable inter-factory cooperation. In this scenario, the 5G systems can play a key role in enabling Industry 4.0 by extending the network slicing paradigm to specifically support the requirements of industrial use cases over heterogeneous domains. We present a novel 5G-based network slicing framework which aims at accommodating the requirements of Industry 4.0. To interconnect different industrial sites up to the extreme edge, different slices of logical resources can be instantiated on-demand to provide the required end-to-end connectivity and processing features. We validate our proposed framework in three realistic use cases which enabled us highlight the envisioned benefits for industrial stakeholders.
