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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Proc IEEE Inst Electr Electron Eng. 2019;107:10.1109/JPROC.2019.2905423. doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2019.2905423

TABLE III:

Exemplary factors in the analysis of wireless use cases

TE Process Control Industrial Printing Control AGV Schedul. and Safety Spectrum Monitoring
OT Environ-mental Topographic Industrial, indoor [35] Industrial, indoor [35] Industrial, indoor/outdoor [60] Industrial, indoor [35]
Mobility N/A < 3 m/s (velocity),
< 10 m (range)
Walking speed [69], site-wide, e.g., 400 m × 400 m [35] N/A
Engineer-ing Depth of Intelligence Info. handling Info. handling Info. handling (routine), pass. notification (safety) Active problem notification
Function Pyramid PLC PLC MES (routine), PLC (safety) ERP/MES
Layouts & Schedules Flow, 24/7 Batch Job, charging cycle Site specific
DATA Semanti-zation Domain Knowledge Chemical Printing Logistics and inventory control [61], safety [69], navigation [62] Radio spectrum regulation [63], [64]
Measurement System SI, double float [65] Vendor specs [66] Vendor specs, e.g., [67] Regulator specs [63], [64]
Utility Indexing Capacity 53 PVs,
HART commands [68]
30 sensors, 30 actuators, 20 bytes per message Site specific Site specific
Elasticity Periodic Periodic Periodic (AGV states), on-demand (paging, task scheduling, safety) Periodic (w/ tuned update report freq.), on-demand (control)
Agility sub-second 2 ms < 50 ms (routine) [60],
≥ 125 Hz (safety) [69]
Spectrum specific, e.g., < 60 s in cleaning the CBRS band [70]
Flow Attributes Flow Dispatch Pub-Sub Pub-Sub (asset diagnosis) REQ-RSP (routine), P2P (Safety) [15] Pub-Sub
Tunneling Ethernet, e.g., OPC DA [71] Ethernet, e.g., SERCOS III [47] EtherCAT w/ OPC UA [72] Ethernet
IT Service Provisioing Subscription M2Storage M2Storage M2Analytics (routine), M2Process (safety) M2Analytics
Customization N/A N/A Virtual firewall Virtual network slice over multiple sites
Architecture Mgmt. Resilience N/A N/A SDN/NFV by carriers SDN/NFV by carriers
Procurement On-premises On-premises IaaS, e.g., enterprise private LTE [11] SaaS by the trusted third-party [70]

Note: The specified values and thresholds in the table only serve as exemplary illustrations in respective applications.