Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Protocols and Challenges
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 4202
Special Issue Editor
Interests: radio channel modeling and prediction; antennas; signal processing; software defined radio; industrial wireless sensor networks; performance evaluation of communication systems; physical-layer security of wieless communication systems; game theory and machine learning techniques; cross-layer protocol design; sensors and sensor systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The industrial Internet of Things and subsequent Industry 4.0 are offering promising prospects for wireless industrial communications. With the ever-growing use of sensors and networked machines (cyberphysical systems), a high volume of available big data can be utilized to design intelligent, self-adaptable, and autonomous manufacturing systems. The data can be from low rate sensors including mission-critical machine-to-machine communications to very high-rate video signals from vision sensors. In such purposes, high capacity wireless technologies will play a key role in accommodating high rate, and strict reliability and latency requirements of future manufacturing systems.
Extensive research was done in the past on wireless industrial networks, focusing mainly on frequencies below 6 GHz. By extending the research to explore feasibility in the millimeter wave bands, new ultra-high reliable, low-latency and very high-rate-demanding industrial applications for next-generation intelligent, self-adaptable, and autonomous manufacturing systems can be envisaged. So far, research on millimeter wave communications has focused on ordinary indoor and outdoor environments, which are not as challenging as industrial ones (having harsh wave propagation characteristics). The physical characteristics of the considered environments are very different to those of industrial settings, resulting in different wave propagation mechanisms.
The objective of the Special Issue is to collect high-quality state-of the-art research papers that address novel industrial air interface technologies over the millimeter wave spectrum (involving both the physical and datalink layers) as well as papers addressing different industrial applications and challenges over the millimeter wave spectrum. Original, unpublished works on the abovementioned topic are solicited.
Prof. Dr. Michael Cheffena
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- measurements
- channel models
- prediction models
- beamforming techniques
- scheduling strategies
- access control
- modulation and code book design
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