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Bringing Time-Sensitive Networking to Wireless Professional Private Networks

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Private professional environments such as manufacturing industry, warehouses, hospitals, airports, among others, increasingly rely on end-to-end connected solutions to support and to improve their daily operational performance. This comes with a demand for real-time and deterministic communication, without evading the flexibility offered by wireless communication. Currently, wireless networks are lacking time-sensitive networking (TSN) features, making them only suitable for non-time-critical communication. To support end-to-end wireless-wired deterministic communication in these private professional environments, it is necessary to introduce TSN features to the wireless network segments. In this paper, we list a number of considerations that have to be addressed before such communication may become a reality, including accurate time synchronization and fine-grained scheduling. Based on these considerations, we present a proof-of-concept realization of a TSN-capable Wi-Fi system, which enables end-to-end wireless-wired deterministic communication.

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  1. IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Ghent, Belgium

    Jetmir Haxhibeqiri, Xianjun Jiao, Ingrid Moerman & Jeroen Hoebeke

  2. IDLab, University of Antwerp - imec, Antwerp, Belgium

    Esteban Municio & Johann M. Marquez-Barja

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This research was funded by the Flemish FWO SBO S003921N VERI-END.com (Verifiable and elastic end-to-end communication infrastructures for private professional environments) project, by the FWO project under Grant agreement #G055619N and the Flemish Government under the “Onderzoeksprogramma Artificiële Intelligentie (AI) Vlaanderen” program.

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Haxhibeqiri, J., Jiao, X., Municio, E. et al. Bringing Time-Sensitive Networking to Wireless Professional Private Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 121, 1255–1271 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-09056-0

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