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AoA and AoI in Modern Industrial Control

Sadikhov, Suleyman LU ; Tärneberg, William LU ; Fitzgerald, Emma LU orcid ; Peng, Haorui LU orcid and Nyberg, Christian LU (2025) In 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
Abstract
Conventional Quality of Service(QoS) measurements are incapable to meet the demand for analysing communication performance on timeliness of information in Industrial Control Networks with many connected subsystems. The Age of Information (AoI) and the Age of Actuation (AoA) give a promise to be a solution. Many recent research articles cover theoretical aspects and analyse performance characteristics of communication systems in terms of AoI, but practical realisation in industry has not been achieved yet. As a new companion metric to AoI, AoA is evaluated in a real test-bed for the first time in this paper. All analysis is based on measurement in an Edge-Control System implemented as our test-bed. To validate the usefulness of these... (More)
Conventional Quality of Service(QoS) measurements are incapable to meet the demand for analysing communication performance on timeliness of information in Industrial Control Networks with many connected subsystems. The Age of Information (AoI) and the Age of Actuation (AoA) give a promise to be a solution. Many recent research articles cover theoretical aspects and analyse performance characteristics of communication systems in terms of AoI, but practical realisation in industry has not been achieved yet. As a new companion metric to AoI, AoA is evaluated in a real test-bed for the first time in this paper. All analysis is based on measurement in an Edge-Control System implemented as our test-bed. To validate the usefulness of these metrics in the system performance tests on edge-cloud integration, the test-bed separated to field network and edge-to-field network scenarios, where the edge server is located in a 5G base-station. This article also describes how such measurements can be carried out. Practical issues such as time synchronizations between connected devices and how to calculate AoI and AoA based on measurements are handled. (Less)
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Age of Information, Age of Actuation, Edge-Control, PTP synchronization
host publication
2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
series title
2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
pages
7 pages
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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  • scopus:105006447042
ISSN
1525-3511
1558-2612
ISBN
979-8-3503-6836-9
979-8-3503-6837-6
DOI
10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978394
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English
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  abstract     = {{Conventional Quality of Service(QoS) measurements are incapable to meet the demand for analysing communication performance on timeliness of information in Industrial Control Networks with many connected subsystems. The Age of Information (AoI) and the Age of Actuation (AoA) give a promise to be a solution. Many recent research articles cover theoretical aspects and analyse performance characteristics of communication systems in terms of AoI, but practical realisation in industry has not been achieved yet. As a new companion metric to AoI, AoA is evaluated in a real test-bed for the first time in this paper. All analysis is based on measurement in an Edge-Control System implemented as our test-bed. To validate the usefulness of these metrics in the system performance tests on edge-cloud integration, the test-bed separated to field network and edge-to-field network scenarios, where the edge server is located in a 5G base-station. This article also describes how such measurements can be carried out. Practical issues such as time synchronizations between connected devices and how to calculate AoI and AoA based on measurements are handled.}},
  author       = {{Sadikhov, Suleyman and Tärneberg, William and Fitzgerald, Emma and Peng, Haorui and Nyberg, Christian}},
  booktitle    = {{2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)}},
  isbn         = {{979-8-3503-6836-9}},
  issn         = {{1525-3511}},
  keywords     = {{Age of Information; Age of Actuation; Edge-Control; PTP synchronization}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  series       = {{2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)}},
  title        = {{AoA and AoI in Modern Industrial Control}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978394}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978394}},
  year         = {{2025}},
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