TSN over 5G: Overcoming Challenges and Realizing Integration

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Abstract

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is becoming increasingly important. Especially in the field of industrial applications, the demand for uniform, converged real-time networks is continuously increasing. Furthermore, the request to integrate wireless, mobile, and real-time capable network elements is getting more and more relevant to industrial automation use cases. To address these requests, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has extended their specifications for mobile telecommunication protocols by descriptions to integrate 5G mobile networks into TSN starting from Release 16 onwards. While the specifications provide a good theoretical overview, there is still a lack of real implementations or even proof of concepts. Therefore, we started an implementation of a 5G network that is ready to be integrated into existing TSN. This work gives an overview of the current work in progress, mainly focusing on the implementation of the TSN Application Function (TSN AF) and the time synchronization features within the TSN Translators (DS-TT and NW-TT). It also shows current limitations and difficulties and how we have overcome them with our setup.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Factory Communication Systems, WFCS 2024
EditorsAhlem Mifdaoui, Luis Almeida, Frank Golatowski, Stefano Scanzio, Pedro Santos, Peter Danielis
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (electronic)979-8-3503-1934-7
ISBN (print)9798350319347
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)
ISSN2835-8511

Conference

Title20th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communication Systems
Abbreviated titleWFCS 2024
Conference number20
Duration17 - 19 April 2024
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationInstitut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace
CityToulouse
CountryFrance

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/161891369
dblp conf/wfcs/WelteLSHSF24
Mendeley 51af5acc-fc34-38e3-8380-f03ffacabccf

Keywords

Keywords

  • 5G, campus network, gPTP, time sensitive networking, time synchronization