Cognitive Radio Prototype for Industrial Applications
Conference: European Wireless 2016 - 22th European Wireless Conference
05/18/2016 - 05/20/2016 at Oulu, Finnland
Proceedings: European Wireless 2016
Pages: 8Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Saad, Ahmad; Knorr, Rudi (Fraunhofer Institute for Embedded Systems and Communication Technologies ESK, Munich, Germany)
Mansour, Nour; Dahlhaus, Dirk; Sharma, Mridula; Al Halaseh, Rana (Communications Laboratory, University of Kassel, Germany)
Friedrich, Andreas; Youssef, Ziad; Majeed, Erfan; Bruck, Guido; Jung, Peter (Department of Communication Technologies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Kohrt, Klaus D. (klaus-d.kohrt@ieee.org)
Abstract:
The development of adaptive communication systems for industrial applications is crucial for achieving flexibility in the so-called Industrie 4.0. In this paper we present the design and implementation of a cognitive radio (CR) prototype for a wireless extension of the tethered process fieldbus (PROFIBUS) in the 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band. The prototype integrates an adaptive filter bank-based physical layer (PHY) with a cognitive medium access control layer (MAC) in order to meet the strict quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of factory automation in terms of delay and packet loss. The paper also presents a hardware-efficient implementation of computationally intensive PHY and MAC algorithms and functionalities. To the best of our knowledge, the presented prototype is the first practical implementation of a CR system for wireless fieldbus communication in an industrial automation scenario.