Academic Salon on Low-Latency Communication, Programmable Network Components and In-Network Computation

Panel Discussion - Industrial Application Scenarios

Topic Area: Real-Time Networking approaches and tools for Industrial Application Scenarios

• What challenges of industrial networking remain to be resolved?

• Which aspects of industrial networking may benefit from programmable network components?

  • Use-case specific network configurations
  • Use-case specific optimisations, e.g. implementing only the necessary functions
    • better use of chip area
    • limiting complexity
    • facilitating certification
  • Slicing/multi-tenant support
  • Tailoring protocol functions to requirements, e.g. L3+TSN
  • What else?

• Which tool support/improvement is desirable?

  • Testbeds with specific requirements
  • Tools for Worst-Case Performance Prediction for given configuration
  • Tools for automated configuration/reconfiguration
  • Tools for resilience design, configuration, testing, management
  • Tools that provide proofs for properties
  • Simulators / Digital Twin tools
  • What else?

• For which of the above tools do we see research needs?

• Which support does research desire to progress?

  • Well documented representative industrial use cases and configurations and KPI requirements
  • Data sets with measurement data from real-world installations
  • Benchmark scenarios
  • Test cases
  • What else?