Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) services in the Internet of Things (IoT)

Research Objectives: The main objective is to demonstrate how ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) services can be used in the IoT context. Specifically, for Industry 4.0 solutions such as industrial automation, reliability and low latency are critical. Similar requirements arise in the context of connected vehicles. While low power wide area networking (LPWAN) technologies have triggered significant proliferation of IoT devices, these cannot scale to provide low latency interfaces. Cellular IoT solutions, specifically NB (Narrow Band)-IoT can provide much better coverage and latency performance. Ideally future IoT networks should be agile enough to incorporate dynamic reconfiguration of protocol parameters in response to network conditions and application requirements. The work carried out by ESR13 will focus on the development of such capabilities.