End-to-end Synchronization, Adaptive Link Resource Reservation, and Data Tunnelling

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Random and excessive communication latency has become a significant constraint for performance improvement in large scale industrial systems. Robust communications with low and deterministic latency, which directly enable accurate network synchronization, could dramatically improve the overall system coordination and operation efficiency of many emerging applications, including data centre, industry Internet of Things (IoT), and networked control/actuation in smart factories. These applications, which are related to machine to machine communications, encompass many important niche markets with enormous sizes.To protect the intellectual property (IP) from his related research, the applicant has recently filed a patent entitled "End-to-end Synchronization, Adaptive Link Resource Reservation and Data Tunnelling" for achieving extremely accurate synchronization while reducing the end-to-end communication latency. This NSERC I2I Phase I project will help the applicant and WORLDiscoveries in finalizing the related technical design, prototype development, and technology demonstration. It will directly accelerate the technology transfer and bolster the commercialization plan for the subject technology.The main objective of the subject technology is to eliminate random communication delay over end-to-end link through reservation of necessary communication resources, and further achieve minimized latency and sub-microsecond level end-to-end synchronization in dynamic wireless networks. Critical technical aspects of the subject technology, including end-to-end synchronization, communication resource reservation, and data tunnelling will be implemented. The performance of the prototype network will be improved with the coordinated synchronization, device grouping and situation-aware adaptation for end-to-end synchronization and latency minimization. Furthermore, the functionalities of the prototype and the compatibility to existing standards will be validated by the IEEE 802.11 based prototype network. The prototype reliability will be evaluated by rigorous lab tests under a realistic environment with severe and dynamic channel conditions.