Network slicing has been widely agreed as a promising technique to accommodate diverse
services for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Smart transportation, smart energy, and …

Many network applications, eg, industrial control, demand ultra-low latency (ULL). However,
traditional packet networks can only reduce the end-to-end latencies to the order of tens of …

The vision of Industry 4.0, otherwise known as the fourth industrial revolution, is the
integration of massively deployed smart computing and network technologies in industrial …

Ensuring ultrareliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) for 5G wireless networks
and beyond is of capital importance and is currently receiving tremendous attention in …

Industrial communication systems represent one of the most important innovations of the last
decades in the context of factory and process automation systems. They are networks …

The future connectivity landscape, and notably, the 5G wireless systems will feature Ultra-
Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC). The coupling of high reliability and low …

Wireless networked control systems (WNCSs) are composed of spatially distributed sensors,
actuators, and controllers communicating through wireless networks instead of conventional …

Fifth-generation cellular mobile networks are expected to support mission critical URLLC
services in addition to enhanced mobile broadband applications. This article first introduces …

As one of the key enabling technologies of emerging smart societies and industries (ie,
industry 4.0), the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved significantly in both technologies and …

The industrial environment poses strict requirements to the infrastructure of good and
service production and delivery. Communications are not an exception. Wired systems …