Access Type

Open Access Dissertation

Date of Award

January 2020

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Department

Computer Science

First Advisor

Abusayeed Saifullah

Second Advisor

Sanjay Madria

Abstract

Industrial internet of Things (IIoT) are gaining popularity for use in large-scale applications such as oil-field management (e.g., 74×8km2 East Texas Oil-field), smart farming, smart manufac- turing, smart grid, and data center power management. These applications require the wireless stack to provide a scalable, reliable, low-power and low-latency communication. To realize a predictable and reliable communication in a highly unreliable wireless environment, industrial wireless standards use a centralized wireless stack design. In a centralized wireless stack design, a central manager generates routes and a communication schedule for a multi-channel time divi- sion multiple access communication (TDMA) based medium access control (MAC). However, a centralized wireless stack design is highly energy consuming, not scalable, and does not support frequent changes to networks or workloads. To address these challenges, the following contribu- tions are made in this dissertation: (1) A scalable and distributed routing algorithm for industrial IoT which generates graph routes, which offer a high degree of redundancy, (2) A local and online scheduling algorithm that is scalable, energy-efficient, and supports network/workload dynamics while ensuring reliability and real-time performance, (3) An approach to minimize latency for in-band integration of multiple low-power networks, (4) A fast and efficient test of schedulability that determines if an application meets the real-time performance requirement for given net- work topology, and (5) A distributed scheduling and control co-design that balances the control performance requirement and real-time performance for industrial IoT.

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