Green industrial networking: Recent advances, taxonomy, and open research challenges
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Abstract
The consciousness of environmental problems has attracted the industry's attention toward the reduction of unnecessary energy emission by enabling green industrial networking. The reduction of unnecessary energy emitted by industrial networks can be a possible solution to many environmental issues. Green industrial networking is in its infancy, and an overview of the domain is still lacking. In this article, we discuss recent advances in industrial and green networking paradigms to investigate the impact on global communities. We also classify the literature by devising a taxonomy based on networking technologies, machines, network types, topologies, field bus types, transmission media, and hierarchical levels. Moreover, we identify and discuss key enablers (adaptive links, resource-based energy conservation, energy-efficient scheduling, energy-aware systems, energy-aware proxying, energy-conservative approaches, and low-power wireless protocols) for green industrial networking. Furthermore, we discuss challenges that remain to be addressed as future research directions.
Keywords
Green products, Network topology, Wireless sensor networks, Green design, Wireless communication, Environmental factors, Communication system security, Telecommunication services
Divisions
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Publication Title
IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume
54
Issue
10
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)