The fourth industrial revolution known as Industry 4.0 has paved the way for a systematical
deployment of the modernized power grid (PG) to manage continuously growing energy …

Wireless networked control systems (WNCSs) are composed of spatially distributed sensors,
actuators, and controllers communicating through wireless networks instead of conventional …

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has received increasing attention from both academia and
industry. However, several challenges including excessively long waiting time and a serious …

The industrial wireless automation sector exhibits a huge market growth in the last years.
Today, many applications already use wireless technologies. However, the existing wireless …

The real and effective ground of all new concepts dedicated to the current advanced
factories, as well as to the future digital ones, is close cooperativity of scattered applications …

Field-level networks have been one of the keys to modern automation systems. Be it in
factory, process, or building automation, networks allow for horizontal and vertical …

Industry 4.0 is generalizing the use of wireless connectivity in manufacturing and logistics.
Specifically, in Smart Logistics, novel Industry 4.0 technologies are used to enable agile …

Just like Ethernet before, IEEE 802.11 is now transcending the borders of its usage from the
office environment toward real-time communication on the factory floor. However, similar to …

This paper proposes PriorityMAC, a priority-enhanced medium access control protocol,
designed for critical traffic in industrial wireless sensor and actuator networks (IWSAN). A …

The vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) to interconnect and Internet-connect everyday
people, objects, and machines poses new challenges in the design of wireless …