OWTSN: Open Wireless Time-Sensitive Networking

Institutions

Team @ TKN

Funding

Project Time

  • 10/2024 - 08/2025

Description

Industrial systems have become highly complex and heterogeneous networks with several cooperating components such as sensors, autonomous robots, and (virtual) PLCs. Today, many fieldbus protocols like EtherCat and PROFINET are designed to address different quality of service (QoS) and reliability requirements of these interconnected components. However, since the majority of these networking technologies depend on specific hardware and protocols, and distinct configurations, their coexistence raises significant challenges regarding their integration, configuration, and management. There is now a significant standardization effort to enable the cooperation of wired and wireless networking technologies to satisfy varying requirements of industrial automation.

Accordingly, OWTSN aims to design end-to-end deterministic wireless networks by implementing IEEE 802.1 Time-sensitive Networking (TSN) protocols over WiFi, using open-source Linux-based components. This foremost enables using an emerging industrial networking standard, TSN, on wireless medium. It further makes possible to connect wireless TSN devices to 5G/6G systems with an additional QoS profiling between WiFi and 5G/6G components.

Selected Publications

Last modified: 2024-09-23