“…The diverse connectivity between industrial field devices and edge infrastructure, depending on the communication medium and protocols from the media access control (MAC) layer all the way toward the application layer as defined in the open systems interconnection (OSI) model, leads to widely divergent performance. Many researchers have provided thorough study on the performance of existing industrial connectivity protocols from different perspectives, such as IEEE 802.11 [10], [11], IEEE 802.15.4 [12], [13], ISA100.11a [14], [15], WIA-PA [16], [17], wirelessHART [18], [19], Thread [20], [21], and LoRaWAN [22]- [24], whereas the performance of the backbone, i.e., the edge-cloud computing stack, is still unknown. Therefore, in this study, we limit our scope to the performance of containerization-based edge-cloud computing stacks in IIoT applications.…”