Demo: Slicing-Enabled Private 4G/5G Network for Industrial Wireless Applications

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a private 4G/5G network with network slicing capabilities, enabling it to support diverse industrial applications like control and video streaming with performance guarantees.

Contribution

It introduces a slicing-enabled private 4G/5G network tailored for industrial environments, showcasing its ability to support multiple heterogeneous applications simultaneously.

Findings

Network slicing is essential for performance guarantees.

The network successfully supports control and streaming applications.

Slicing enables coexistence of diverse industrial services.

Abstract

Private deployments of 4G and 5G networks in industrial environments are beneficial from various aspects. Private 4G/5G networks typically face the challenge of supporting heterogeneous industrial applications. This technology demonstration highlights the importance of network slicing in private 4G/5G networks. It shows that network slicing is crucial for performance guarantees in multi-service co-existence scenarios. With network slicing, our private 4G/5G network successfully supports closed-loop control, event-driven control and video streaming applications.