6TiSCH Wireless Industrial Networks: Determinism Meets IPv6

Palattella, Maria Rita; Thubert, Pascal; Vilajosana, Xavier; Watteyne, Thomas; Wang, Qin; Engel, Thomas

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04223-7_5

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“…For instance, the IEEE 802.15.4e protocol is a recent MAC amendment of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, specially designed for harsh industrial environments with a reliable and deterministic communication scheme based on TimeSlotted Channel Hopping [4]. Also, a recent IETF working group, named 6TiSCH, has been formed to investigate IPv6 connectivity over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e protocol [5]. However, since most of these research efforts mainly focus on fixed networks with a static nature, the mobility support still remains one of the greatest challenges for wireless industrial networks at this point in time.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The centralized network management mechanisms will be used to bring the deterministic feature of industrial standards into an IPv6 context. On the other side, more dynamic self-configuring and self-healing networking mechanisms will be realized with the distributed scheduling (Scheduling Function 0 and 1) and routing mechanisms (RPL) defined in standards [5][6]. In addition, we also investigate the potential of 802.15.4 in the 868MHz frequency band to be used as networking solution for large scale warehouse applications with softer latency requirements.…”

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Wireless industrial communication for connected shuttle systems in warehouses

Karaağaç¹,

Haxhibeqiri²,

Joseph³

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE 13th International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)

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-In the last decade, we have seen the uptake of connected solutions to support and improve manufacturing, warehousing and distribution operations in industry. However, deterministic and reliable wireless communication in largescale, dynamic and mobile applications still remains one of the greatest challenges for the realization of the Digital Factory of the Future. In this paper, we investigate more open, flexible and reliable wireless network structures that can be used in connected warehouses, focusing on connected shuttle systems for transporting goods.

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confidence: 99%

Wireless industrial communication for connected shuttle systems in warehouses

Karaağaç¹,

Haxhibeqiri²,

Joseph³

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE 13th International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)

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“…The core of TSCH is a medium access technique using time synchronization and channel hopping to achieve ultra-low power operation and high reliability. 6 Due to a need of interconnecting to the Internet, the IETF 6TiSCH WG (IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e) 7,8 has been established to enable the further adoption of IPv6-enabled protocols such as CoAP, 9 6LoWPAN, 10 and RPL 11 in IEEE 802.15.4e standard.…”

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A rapid joining scheme based on fuzzy logic for highly dynamic IEEE 802.15.4e time-slotted channel hopping networks

Duy

Dinh

Kim

2016

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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The IEEE 802.15.4e standard is an amendment of the IEEE 802.15.4-2011 protocol by introducing time-slotted channel hopping access behavior mode. However, the IEEE 802.15.4e only defines time-slotted channel hopping link-layer mechanisms without an investigation of network formation and communication scheduling which are still open issues to the research community. This article investigates the network formation issue of the IEEE 802.15.4e time-slotted channel hopping networks. In time-slotted channel hopping networks, a joining node normally takes a long time period to join the network because the node has to wait until there is at least one enhanced beacon message advertised by synchronized nodes (synchronizers) in the network on its own synchronization channel. This leads to a long joining delay and high energy consumption during the network formation phase, especially so in highly dynamic networks in which nodes join or rejoin frequently. To enable a rapid time-slotted channel hopping network formation, this article proposes a new design for slotframe structure and a novel adaptive joining scheme based on fuzzy logic. Our proposed scheme enables a synchronizer to be able to adaptively determine an appropriate number of enhanced beacons it should advertise, based on the number of available synchronizers in the network, so that joining nodes can achieve a short joining time while energy consumption of enhanced beacon advertisement at the synchronizers is optimized. Through extensive mathematical analysis and experimental results, we show that the proposed scheme achieves a significant improvement in terms of joining delay compared to state-of-the-art studies.

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“…Due to their different goals, OT and IT have evolved in a radically different way one from another. Therefore, a number of new challenges have to be overcome in order to make the IT/OT integration viable [1].…”

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“…), which are deterministic by design, and different from traditional IP QoS-based networks. To this aim, new protocols and an overall architecture tying the adapted protocol suite together should be defined by Standard Developing Organization (SDO) [1].…”

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Decentralized Traffic Aware Scheduling in 6TiSCH Networks: Design and Experimental Evaluation

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Palattella

et al. 2015

IEEE Internet Things J.

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Abstract-This paper capitalizes on two emerging trends, i.e. the growing use of wireless at the edge of industrial control networks and the growing interest to integrate IP into said networks. This is facilitated by recent design contributions from the IEEE and the IETF, where the former developed a highly efficient deterministic time-frequency scheduled medium access control protocol in form of IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH and the latter IPv6 networking paradigms in form of 6LoWPAN/ROLL, and scheduling approaches in form of 6TiSCH. The focus of the present work is on advancing the state of the art of deterministic 6TiSCH schedules towards more flexible but equally reliable distributed approaches. In addition, this paper aims to introduce the first implementation of 6TiSCH networks for factory automation environments: it outlines the challenges faced to overcome the scalability issues inherent to multi-hop dense low-power networks; the experimental results confirm that the naturally unreliable radio medium can support time-critical and reliable applications. These developments pave the way for wireless industry-grade monitoring approaches.

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6TiSCH Wireless Industrial Networks: Determinism Meets IPv6

Cited by 46 publications

References 31 publications

Wireless industrial communication for connected shuttle systems in warehouses

Wireless industrial communication for connected shuttle systems in warehouses

A rapid joining scheme based on fuzzy logic for highly dynamic IEEE 802.15.4e time-slotted channel hopping networks

Decentralized Traffic Aware Scheduling in 6TiSCH Networks: Design and Experimental Evaluation

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