CCRI: Planning: Collaborative Research: A Software-defined Wireless Communications Network Research Infrastructure for the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)Research Community

CCRI：规划：协作研究：工业物联网（IIoT）研究社区的软件定义无线通信网络研究基础设施

• 批准号: 1925706
• 负责人: Song Han
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1925706&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCRI; Planning; Collaborative; Research; Software

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is the application of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to industrial systems and is being employed in a number of industry sectors. Specifically, in the manufacturing sector, IIoT systems are often deployed in harsh and complex environments and have to satisfy system-level dependability, timing performance, energy-efficiency, and security requirements. Moreover, IIoT technology can be leveraged to optimize the quality of products and the productivity of manufacturing lines and avoid process anomalies and faults that can lead to subpar performance and safety issues. However, these unique opportunities brought by IIoT pose challenges in their communication fabric design, distributed data management, analysis and decision making, and security protection. This CCRI planning proposal describes the planning activities underpinning the design of an innovative software-defined IIoT infrastructure to be jointly deployed at the three participating institutions, which will serve as a unified test-bed for a broad range of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) researchers. It is envisioned that this proposed infrastructure will enable and support a large number of IIoT related research projects in the broader CISE community. It will vastly advance the adoption of IIoT technology, accelerate the transformation of legacy communication infrastructure to advanced networking and computing infrastructure, and boost the nation's economic growth and competitiveness.The proposed novel IIoT community infrastructure is motivated by the observed limitations of existing IIoT test-beds in the research community. These limitations include (i) a lack of deployment in real-life manufacturing environments and (ii) the inability to support heterogeneous network structures and scalable network management and data analytics. To address these limitations, this project will utilize established community outreach venues to reach out to the relevant CISE research communities to best understand the community needs and their expectations for the proposed infrastructure. The proposed IIoT community research infrastructure will be the first of its kind that (a) combines software-defined networking (SDN) backbone and software-defined radio (SDR)-based real-time wireless edge networks into a hybrid communication fabric to emulate a variety of industrial networking environments; (b) provides a hierarchical real-time computing platform for real-time IIoT system monitoring, analysis and decision making; and (c) organizes the edge computing facilities deployed at individual sites into a multi-site IIoT Blockchain network to support research on distributed data management technologies. The flexibility and configurability of the proposed infrastructure at both device and system levels will enable diverse communities of CISE researchers to access the test-bed, deploy their protocols, algorithms and applications, and experimentally validate new ideas and innovations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工业物联网 (IIoT) 是物联网 (IoT) 技术在工业系统中的应用，目前已应用于多个行业领域。具体来说，在制造领域，工业物联网系统通常部署在恶劣和复杂的环境中，必须满足系统级可靠性、定时性能、能效和安全要求。此外，可以利用工业物联网技术来优化产品质量和生产线的生产力，并避免可能导致性能不佳和安全问题的流程异常和故障。然而，工业物联网带来的这些独特机遇对其通信结构设计、分布式数据管理、分析和决策以及安全防护提出了挑战。 CCRI 规划提案描述了支撑创新软件定义 IIoT 基础设施设计的规划活动，该基础设施将在三个参与机构联合部署，该基础设施将作为广大计算机和信息科学与工程 (CISE) 研究人员的统一测试平台。预计该基础设施将在更广泛的 CISE 社区中启用和支持大量 IIoT 相关研究项目。它将极大地促进工业物联网技术的采用，加速传统通信基础设施向先进网络和计算基础设施的转变，并促进国家的经济增长和竞争力。拟议的新型工业物联网社区基础设施是由研究界现有工业物联网测试台观察到的局限性所激发的。这些限制包括 (i) 缺乏在现实制造环境中的部署，以及 (ii) 无法支持异构网络结构以及可扩展的网络管理和数据分析。为了解决这些限制，该项目将利用已建立的社区外展场所来接触相关的 CISE 研究社区，以更好地了解社区的需求及其对拟议基础设施的期望。 拟议的工业物联网社区研究基础设施将是同类中第一个：(a) 将软件定义网络 (SDN) 主干网和基于软件定义无线电 (SDR) 的实时无线边缘网络结合到混合通信结构中，以模拟各种工业网络环境； (b) 提供分层实时计算平台，用于实时IIoT系统监控、分析和决策； (c) 将部署在各个站点的边缘计算设施组织成多站点工业物联网区块链网络，以支持分布式数据管理技术的研究。所提议的基础设施在设备和系统层面的灵活性和可配置性将使不同社区的 CISE 研究人员能够访问测试平台，部署他们的协议、算法和应用程序，并通过实验验证新的想法和创新。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。