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.

工业互联网（IIOT）是物联网（IoT）技术在工业系统中的应用，并且正在许多行业领域中使用。具体而言，在制造业中，IIT系统通常被部署在恶劣且复杂的环境中，并且必须满足系统级别的可靠性，时机性能，能源效率和安全要求。此外，可以利用IIOT技术来优化产品质量以及制造业线的生产力，并避免流程异常和故障，从而导致低于标准的性能和安全问题。但是，IIOT带来的这些独特的机会在其通信结构设计，分布式数据管理，分析和决策以及安全保护方面构成了挑战。该CCRI计划建议描述了基于在三个参与的机构中共同部署的创新软件定义的IIT基础设施设计的计划活动，该机构将作为一家统一的计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）研究人员的统一测试。可以预见的是，这项拟议的基础设施将启用并支持更广泛的CISE社区中的大量IIOT相关研究项目。它将极大地提高IIOT技术的采用，加速传统沟通基础设施向先进的网络和计算基础设施的转变，并提高国家的经济增长和竞争力。拟议的新型IIOT社区基础设施是由研究社区中现有IIT测试床的现有IIT测试床的限制所激发的。这些限制包括（i）现实生活中的制造环境中缺乏部署，以及（ii）无法支持异质网络结构以及可扩展网络管理和数据分析。为了解决这些限制，该项目将利用既定的社区外展场所与相关的CISE研究社区接触，以最好地了解社区需求及其对拟议基础设施的期望。 拟议的IIOT社区研究基础设施将是（a）结合软件定义的网络（SDN）骨干和基于软件定义的无线电（SDR）的实时无线边缘网络中混合通信结构以模拟各种工业网络环境的同类基础架构； （b）为实时IIT系统监视，分析和决策提供了一个层次实时计算平台； （c）将部署在各个站点的边缘计算设施组织到多站点IIOT区块链网络中，以支持分布式数据管理技术的研究。拟议的基础架构在设备和系统级别上的灵活性和可配置性将使CISE研究人员的各种社区能够访问测试床，部署其协议，算法和应用程序，并在实验上验证了新的思想和创新。该奖项颁发了NSF的法定任务，反映了通过评估的支持者，该奖项已被评估概念和概述。