Future Industrial Communication Networks (FICN)

Keynote Talks

Industrial CPS over Wireless Networks: Performance, Design, Inference, and Control

(Academic Keynote)

Practical implementations of Industrial Cyber Physical Systems will typically involve substantial wireless networking, due to ease of deployment, retrofitting, expansion, and reconfiguration. The wireless platform will be the Internet of Things, based on existing wireless networking standards (e.g., IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4) or proprietary wireless technologies. Unlike the use of in-building wireless networks for Internet access, IoT networks for Industrial CPS applications will need to be designed for desired levels of performance. In this talk, after introducing the topic, we will provide insights into the performance of commonly used indoor wireless technologies for IoT, the design of IoT networks, and also glimpses of issues in inference and control over such networks.

Prof. Anurag Kumar, B.Tech (1977) IIT Kanpur, PhD (1981) Cornell Univ., was a Member of Technical Staff in AT&T Bell Laboratories (1981-1988), before returning to India and joining the Indian Institute of Science as a faculty member in the ECE Department. He became a Professor in 1996, and is the Director of the Institute since 2014. He has published almost 200 peer reviewed papers in journals and conferences, in the area of communications networking and distributed systems, and has co-authored two major textbooks that have been used globally. He was the 1977 President's Gold Medallist in IIT Kanpur. He received the IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Engineering Research for 2008. He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Indian Academy of Science (IASc), and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). During the period 2005-2009, he was an area editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and was then on its steering committee from 2010-2014. He received the 2015 Vasvik Award for Information Technology, and is a recipient of the J.C. Bose National Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Science Technology, for the period 2011-2021.

Linus Thrybom received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1991. From 1992 to 1997 he was with the ABB Industrial Systems, Västerås, Sweden, as design engineer of embedded systems and communication devices. From 1998 to 2008, he was with the Bombardier Transportation, Västerås, Sweden, as project leader on train communication and control systems. Since 2008 he is with the ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden, where he in 2011 became Principal Scientist, and in 2015 he became manager of the Industrial Communication team. Since 2016 he is manager of the Industrial IoT research team as well coordinating the connectivity research within ABB Corporate Research. His research interests include industrial communication and 5G, system architecture, distributed real-time systems and Internet of Things.