News: The final workshop program is now available!
The IEEE Globecom workshop on Future wireless access for Industrial IoT (FutureIIoT) will be held in Waikoloa, US, on December 13, 2019 in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2019.
Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is increasingly an important aspect of wireless communications in the 5G era. Industrial IoT (IIoT) is expected to bring new economic value to various sectors of industry. After the release of the initial 5G NR specifications, which was mainly focused on mobile broadband use cases, the research and development effort for future wireless communication has shifted gears towards enabling mission critical communications. This calls for advances in telecommunication technologies to accommodate ultra-high reliable access while supporting ultra-low end-to-end (E2E) latency. Specially, this is envisioned to enable massive-scale production-line automation and process monitoring for the highly anticipated 4th industrial revolution, Industry 4.0. With the help of advanced telecommunication technologies, automation revolution is expected to increase economic growth and boost productivity and efficiency of industries around the globe.
Motivation and scope:
The promises of the next generation wireless technologies to enable ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC), brings about a great deal of challenges which require substantial research, development and standardization effort. The key performance indicators for URLLC are in sharp contrast to mobile broadband communications, implying vast opportunities for innovation and research to enable end-to-end (E2E) solutions for next generation wireless and realize industry automation. In this regard, largely different industry verticals have joined forces with telecommunication industry and academia. This includes small and large manufacturers, mining industry, automotive industry, transportation and cargo industry, as well as agriculture, energy and health sectors. The efforts are envisioned to enable advanced communication technologies for massive-scale production-line automation and process monitoring for the highly anticipated 4th industrial revolution, Industry 4.0. This workshop aims to bring together the researchers and visionaries from academia and industry to share their recent findings.
Topics of interest:
Original paper submission is welcome in (but not limited to):
- Fundamental trade-offs for reliable communication
- Potentials and risks of ultra-reliable low-latency communication in unlicensed frequency bands
- Industrial wireless Ethernet for time-sensitive network (TSN); Quality of service (QoS) frameworks for industrial communication
- Wireless communication for real-time closed-loop control application
- Cooperative communication and D2D relaying for URLLC
- Communication for un-manned areal vehicles (UAVs), drones, remote-guided vehicles (RGVs)
- Multi-connectivity, coordinated multi-point (CoMP) and distributed diversity techniques; distributed space-time and space-frequency diversity
- Advances in multi-antenna systems and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology for reliable communication
- Coexistence of URLLC with other use cases such as enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and internet of things (IoT) through scheduling, network slicing, etc.
- Exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) and advance machine learning (ML) techniques in enabling URLLC
- Advanced channel coding; Optimized low-latency decoders for short packet communication
- Waveform design for low latency communication
- Initial and random-access procedures for reliable and real-time access
- Channel measurements and channel modeling in industrial environments
- System analysis and evaluation studies for E2E latency reduction
- Fast and reliable simulation through sampling techniques such as importance sampling and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
- URLLC proof of concept (PoC) results
- Evaluation studies of state-of-the-art factory automation and process automation technologies and standards (such as Wia-Fa, Wia-Pa, IO-Link, WirelessHART, etc.)
