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Wireless Communication for the Industrial IoT

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The emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), which will enable billions of devices to seamlessly connect with each other and to the Internet, aims to enhance the quality of daily life in diverse fields. Today, even though an abundance of IoT applications already exists, the growth of IoT is expected to accelerate in the foreseeable future. IoT applications are mainly divided into two categories: (1) consumer IoT and (2) industrial IoT (IIoT). The IIoT consists of interconnected sensors, machinery, and other “things” that are used in various fields of industrial applications. Throughout this chapter, the main focus is on wireless communication for IIoT applications and therefore the major challenges in designing a suitable wireless communication solution for IIoT applications are initially discussed. A comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art wireless communication standards, which are suitable for IIoT applications, is presented and representative comparisons on some of the most common industrial wireless communication technologies including 5G, the next generation of the wireless technologies, are provided. Next, we focus on one of the most significant technologies for 5G systems, namely the ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC), which is highly relevant for mission-critical IIoT applications. We list the challenges of URLLC and study the theoretical limits on the transmission of short packets. In these information theoretic works, latency is mostly computed as the total transmission time of a single packet. However, decoding a encoded packet is a computationally demanding operation and when we analyse complexity-constrained receivers, such as low complexity IIoT receivers, the time duration that is needed for decoding should also be taken into account in latency analysis. Finally, by including the decoding duration, we present the trade-offs in low-latency communication for receivers with computational complexity constraints.

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    The symbols, x i, that constitute the sequence x j, which is suitable for transmission through a given channel, are said to belong to the input alphabet of the channel.

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    CER results for convolutional codes, LDPC codes, and polar codes are taken from [38].

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This work was funded in part by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) under grant agreement RIT15-0091.

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Celebi, H.B., Pitarokoilis, A., Skoglund, M. (2020). Wireless Communication for the Industrial IoT. In: Butun, I. (eds) Industrial IoT . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42500-5_2

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