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Publications in Scientific Journals:

P. Pop, B. Zarrin, M. Barzegaran, S. Schulte, S. Punnekkat, J. Ruh, W. Steiner:
"The FORA Fog Computing Platform for Industrial IoT";
Information Systems, Volume 98 (2021), 101727: 1 - 101727: 20.



English abstract:
Industry 4.0 will only become a reality through the convergence of Operational and Information Technologies (OT & IT), which use different computation and communication technologies. Cloud Computing cannot be used for OT involving industrial applications, since it cannot guarantee stringent non-functional requirements, e.g., dependability, trustworthiness and timeliness. Instead, a new computing paradigm, called Fog Computing, is envisioned as an architectural means to realize the IT/OT convergence. In this paper we propose a Fog Computing Platform (FCP) reference architecture targeting Industrial IoT applications. The FCP is based on: deterministic virtualization that reduces the effort required for safety and security assurance; middleware for supporting both critical control and dynamic Fog applications; deterministic networking and interoperability, using open standards such as IEEE 802.1 Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA); mechanisms for resource management and orchestration; and services for security, fault tolerance and distributed machine learning. We propose a methodology for the definition and the evaluation of the reference architecture. We use the Architecture Analysis Design Language (AADL) to model the FCP reference architecture, and a set of industrial use cases to evaluate its suitability for the Industrial IoT area.

Keywords:
Fog Computing, Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0, AADL, Time-Sensitive Networking, Deterministic virtualization


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2021.101727



Related Projects:
Project Head Wolfgang Kastner:
FORA


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