Название: Mixed-Criticality Industrial Wireless Networks
Автор: Xi Jin, Changqing Xia, Chi Xu, Dong Li
Издательство: Springer
Серия: Wireless Networks
Год: 2023
Страниц: 137
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 16.8 MB

This book introduces how to manage important tasks in industrial wireless networks.

Important tasks must be completed on time and with guaranteed quality; that is the consensus reached by system designers and users. However, for too long, important tasks have often been given unnecessary urgency, and people intuitively believe that important tasks should be executed first so that their performance can be guaranteed. Actually, in most cases, their performance can be guaranteed even if they are executed later, and the “early” resources can be utilized for other, more urgent tasks. Therefore, confusing importance with urgency hinders the proper use of system resources. In 2007, mixed criticality was proposed to indicate that a system may contain tasks of various importance levels. Since then, system designers and users have distinguished between importance and urgency.

In the industrial field, due to the harsh environment they operate in, industrial wireless networks’ quality of service (QoS) has always been a bottleneck restricting their applications. Therefore, this book introduces criticality to label important data, which is then allocated more transmission resources, ensuring that important data’s QoS requirements can be met to the extent possible.

To help readers understand how to apply mixed criticality to industrial wireless networks, the content is divided into four parts. First, we introduce how to integrate the model of mixed-criticality data into industrial wireless networks (Chap. 1). Second, we explain how to analyze the schedulability of mixed-criticality data under existing scheduling algorithms (Chaps. 2 and 3). Third, we present a range of novel scheduling algorithms for mixed-criticality data (Chaps. 4, 5, and 6). Finally, we conclude this book and discuss future research directions (Chap. 7).

Since industrial elements must be connected by industrial networks, the quality of service (QoS) of the networks seriously affects industrial production processes. Once the industrial network cannot deliver data packets to their destinations while meeting the communication requirements, it may lead to serious problems such as the decline of control performance, the stagnation of industrial production, and even safety production accidents. Therefore, before designing an industrial network, we must understand the requirements of industrial communications.

In different application scenarios, networks must meet different requirements. The most common requirement is transmission speed, which is present in all networks, not limited to industrial networks. Civilian networks, e.g., WiFi and cellular networks, are constantly evolving to meet users’ transmission speed requirements. For this kind of requirement, industrial networks can learn from the advanced techniques of civilian networks to solve the problems in industrial scenarios.

If you want to improve the QoS of industrial wireless networks, this book is for you.

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