Ac as de las XV Jo nadas
de Ingenie ía Telemá ica
(JITEL 2021),
A Co uña (España),
27-29 de oc ub e de 2021.
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Towa ds Flexible In eg a ion o 5G and IIoT
Technologies in Indus y 4.0
Jo ge Sasiain, Ane Sanz, Jasone As o ga, Edua do Jacob
Depa men o Communica ions Enginee ing,
Uni e si y o he Basque Coun y (UPV/EHU)
48013 Bilbao, Spain.
jo [email p o ec ed], [email p o ec ed], jasone.as o g[email p o ec ed], [email p o ec ed]
Abs ac
In his a icle, he au ho s p opose a lexible ne -
wo k a chi ec u e o Indus y 4.0 le e aging wo
5G key-enabling echnologies—Ne wo k Func ions
Vi ualiza ion and So wa e-De ined Ne wo king. The
au ho s also p esen he deploymen o a Wi eless
Senso Ne wo k wi h s ong access con ol mech-
anisms in o such a chi ec u e, enabling secu e and
lexible Indus ial In e ne o Things applica ions.
Keywo ds—indus y 4.0, NFV, SDN, IIoT, 5G
I. INTRODUCTION
T adi ional ne wo k a chi ec u es p esen se e al sho -
comings in ega ds o lexibili y, accessibili y, and dynam-
ici y ha can be u he agg a a ed in indus ial scena ios
whe e he coexis ence wi h he e ogeneous de ices, ma-
chine ools, and indus y-speci ic p o ocols is a eali y.
The Indus y 4.0 pa adigm also en isions he in eg a ion
o Indus ial In e ne o Things (IIoT) applica ions, o en
comp ised o in e connec ed de ices wi h limi ed capa-
bili ies and esou ces, named Cons ained De ice Senso s
(CDS), which o m a Wi eless Senso Ne wo k (WSN).
Howe e , he in eg a ion o WSNs in o indus ial en i on-
men s comes wi h secu i y issues ha mus be o e come.
The objec i es o he p esen a icle a e wo old. The
i s objec i e is o de elop an NFV- and SDN-enabled
a chi ec u e capable o o e coming he a o emen ioned
limi a ions. The second objec i e is o in eg a e a WSN
s eng hened by he use o a ligh weigh , dynamic, and
ine-g ained access con ol p o ocol.
II. PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE
This sec ion p esen s he deploymen o he NFV- and
SDN-enabled a chi ec u e o Indus y 4.0, and he inclu-
sion o a WSN o IIoT applica ions. I has been deployed
ac oss he Facul y o Enginee ing in Bilbao (EIB) and
he Ae onau ics Ad anced Manu ac u ing Cen e (CFAA).
These wo loca ions a e in e connec ed h ough a laye -
2 SDN ne wo k a a a e o 10 Gbps. Two OpenS ack
nodes manage he esou ces o hei espec i e loca ions,
and h ee ONOS con olle s manage he da a plane con-
nec i i y. Finally, an Open Sou ce MANO (OSM) on op
o ches a es he whole NFV and SDN in as uc u e. This
a chi ec u e is ep esen ed in Figu e 1.
Fig. 1. P oposed NFV and SDN a chi ec u e
In addi ion, a WSN has been in eg a ed in o his a -
chi ec u e, enabling he deploymen o se e al cons ained
senso s in o de o moni o di e en en i onmen al pa-
ame e s. The Hid a p o ocol [1] is used, p o iding a
s ong and dynamic access con ol solu ion ha can be
implemen ed e en in he mos cons ained de ices.
Each Ne wo k Se ice (NS) deployed h ough OSM
maps logically o a gi en manu ac u ing p ocess and
p o ides i , on demand, wi h he necessa y esou ces
and Vi ual Ne wo k Func ions (VNF). Laye -2 VLAN
segmen a ion is used in o de o ensu e isola ion be ween
di e en p ocesses. Besides, he addi ion o he WSN
in oduces an addi ional dimension o he design o NSs,
as se ices p o ided by he CDSs can be dynamically
alloca ed o hese NSs oge he wi h he se ices p o ided
by he VNFs ha hey a e composed o .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This wo k was suppo ed by 5G-Ci y (TEC2016-76795-
C6-5-R) and TRUE5G (PID2019-108713RB-C54).
REFERENCES
[1] U ia e, M., As o ga, J., Jacob, E., Hua e, M., Ca ne e o, M.
(2017). Exp essi e policy-based access con ol o esou ce-
cons ained de ices. IEEE Access, 6, 15-46.
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