TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Lackner, Thorge
A1  - Hermann, Julian
A1  - Dietrich, Fabian
A1  - Kuhn, Christian
A1  - Angos Mediavilla, Mario
A1  - Jooste, Johannes
A1  - Palm, Daniel
T1  - Measurement and comparison of data rate and time delay of end-devices in licensed sub-6 GHz 5G standalone non-public networks
JF  - Procedia CIRP
N2  - The fifth mobile communications generation (5G) offers the deployment scenario of licensed 5G standalone non-public networks (NPNs). Standalone NPNs are locally restricted 5G networks based on 5G New Radio technology which are fully isolated from public networks. NPNs operate on their dedicated core network and offer organizations high data security and customizability for intrinsic network control. Especially in networked and cloud manufacturing, 5G is seen as a promising enabler for delay-sensitive applications such as autonomous mobile robots and robot motion control based on the tactile internet that requires wireless communication with deterministic traffic and strict cycling times. However, currently available industrial standalone NPNs do not meet the performance parameters defined in the 5G specification and standardization process. Current research lacks in performance measurements of download, upload, and time delays of 5G standalone-capable end-devices in NPNs with currently available software and hardware in industrial settings. Therefore, this paper presents initial measurements of the data rate and the round-trip delay in standalone NPNs with various end-devices to generate a first performance benchmark for 5G-based applications. In addition, five end-devices are compared to gain insights into the performance of currently available standalone-capable 5G chipsets. To validate the data rate, three locally hosted measurement methods, namely iPerf3, LibreSpeed and OpenSpeedTest, are used. Locally hosted Ping and LibreSpeed have been executed to validate the time delay. The 5G standalone NPN of Reutlingen University uses licensed frequencies between 3.7-3.8 GHz and serves as the testbed for this study.
KW  - 5G
KW  - standalone non-public network
KW  - measurements
KW  - end-devices
KW  - download
KW  - upload
KW  - time delay
KW  - data rate
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-36827
SN  - 2212-8271
SS  - 2212-8271
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.120
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.120
VL  - 107
IS  - Leading manufacturing systems transformation – Proceedings of the 55th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2022
SP  - 1132
EP  - 1137
S1  - 6
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -