Benefits of Positioning-Aided Communication Technology in High-Frequency Industrial IoT

Elena Simona Lohan, Mike Koivisto, Olga Galinina, Sergey Andreev, Antti Tölli, Giuseppe Destino, Mário Costa, Kari Leppänen, Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Mikko Valkama

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    Abstract

    The future of industrial applications is shaped by intelligent moving IoT devices, such as flying drones, advanced factory robots, and connected vehicles, which may operate (semi-)autonomously. In these challenging scenarios, dynamic radio connectivity at high frequencies, augmented with timely positioning-related information, becomes instrumental to improve communication performance and facilitate efficient computation offloading. Our work reviews the main research challenges and reveals open implementation gaps in IIoT applications that rely on location awareness and multi-connectivity in super high and extremely high frequency bands. It further conducts a rigorous numerical investigation to confirm the potential of precise device localization in the emerging IIoT systems. We focus on positioning- aided benefits made available to multi-connectivity IIoT device operation at 28 GHz, which notably improve data transfer rates, communication latency, and the extent of control overhead.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number8535084
    Pages (from-to)142-148
    Number of pages7
    JournalIEEE Communications Magazine
    Volume56
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 14 Nov 2018
    Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Publication forum classification

    • Publication forum level 2

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Science Applications
    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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