5G-TSN/DetNet Integrated Networks for Industrial Automation, Ericsson booth - 2025 IEEE ICC Exhibition, Montreal, QC, Canada
The demo focuses on the challenge of the trade-off between reliability and bandwidth utilization in industrial communications. The demo includes a robot connected to its cloud-deployed controller via (private and public) 5G network. The robot is equipped with two 5G UEs to provide disjoint wireless connectivity to the cloud controller.
IEEE 802.1CB Frame Replication and Elimination for Reliability (FRER) is used to provide high reliability and availability over the disjoint connections as specified in
3GPP TS 23.501. However, the replication-based reliability mechanism has a bandwidth price tag, which may not need to be paid for when good wireless network conditions do not require such dual-active 1+1 redundancy.
To maintain high reliability and also save on bandwidth consumption under favorable network conditions, the demo introduced a Machine Learning (ML)-based dynamic reliability framework that activates or deactivates the replication functions in FRER based on measured real-time radio conditions. Using k-means clustering, the system categorizes the radio environment into three clusters representing Strong, Moderate, and Weak radio conditions. When both UEs are in the Strong cluster, the system can safely deactivate redundant transmissions and save on bandwidth without sacrificing reliability.
Selected Publications
2024 IEEE 10th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)
Title: 5G-TSN/DetNet Integrated Networks for Industrial IoT: A Machine Learning Framework to Balance Reliability and Bandwidth Utilization Authors: Mohammed Abuibaid, Amir Hoseein Ghorab, Aysun Aslan Saruhan, Marc St-Hilaire, Glenn Parsons, János Farkas, Balázs Varga, István Moldován, Miklós Máté Pages: 1-6 DOI:10.1109/WF-IoT62078.2024.10811354 Note: Best Industry Paper Award.
2024 Patent: Scheduling for Hyper-reliable Wireless Communication
Authors: Mohammed Abuibaid, Amir Hoseein Ghorab, Aysun Aslan Saruhan, Marc St-Hilaire, Glenn Parsons, János Farkas, Balázs Varga, Ferenc Fejes Patent Number: 63/683824 Institution: Ericsson Filed: August 2024
2023 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN)
Title: Integration of DetNet/TSN Reliability Functions in 5G Systems: A Case Study and Measurements Authors: Mohammed Abuibaid, Amir Hoseein Ghorab, Aysun Aslan Saruhan, Marc St-Hilaire, Glenn Parsons, János Farkas, Balázs Varga, István Moldován, Miklós Máté, Syed Hassan Raza Naqvi Pages: 369-375 DOI:10.1109/CSCN60443.2023.10453205
2022 IEEE Communications Standards Magazine
Title: Cloudification of Time-Sensitive Networking Reliability Functions: Challenges and Potential Solution Directions Authors: Mohammed Abuibaid, Amir Hoseein Ghorab, Marc St-Hilaire, Balázs Varga, János Farkas, István Moldován, Miklós Máté Volume: 6, Number: 4, Pages: 30-37 DOI:10.1109/MCOMSTD.0003.2200042
2022 IEEE Access
Title: Edge Workloads Monitoring and Failover: a StarlingX-Based Testbed Implementation and Measurement Study Authors: Mohammed Abuibaid, Amir Hossein Ghorab, Aidan Seguin-Mcpeake, Owen Yuen, Thomas Yungblut, Marc St-Hilaire Volume: 10, Pages: 97101-97116 DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3204976
2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF)
Title: Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO Design: Optimal Number of Antennas Ensuring Guaranteed Bit Rate Authors: Mohammed Abuibaid, Marc St-Hilaire, Sultan Aldirmaz-Colak, Imad Eid Pages: 328-333 DOI:10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00064
