A Survey of Network Automation for Industrial Internet-of-Things Toward Industry 5.0

• Published in: IEEE transactions on industrial informatics Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 2065 - 2077
• Main Authors: Chi, Hao Ran, Wu, Chung Kit, Huang, Nen-Fu, Tsang, Kim-Fung, Radwan, Ayman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) 01.02.2023
• Subjects: Automation; Industrial applications; Internet of Things; State-of-the-art reviews
• ISSN: 1551-3203; 1941-0050
• DOI: 10.1109/TII.2022.3215231

Network automation has been bred by the deployment of 5G based Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) in Industry 4.0, and further approaching pervasive AI and human-robot-interaction/-collaboration toward 6G based Industry 5.0. Hitherto, to the best of the authors knowledge, research efforts are still required to provide a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art network automation technologies for IIoT in 5G based Industry 4.0 and summary of challenges for next-generation network automation regarding the stricter network requirements of 6G based Industry 5.0. Therefore, in this article, we conduct a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art network automation technologies, standardizations, and corresponding impact on IIoT of Industry 4.0. We also forecast the next-generation network automation development toward 6G based Industry 5.0. This article provides blueprint of the next-generation network automation, meanwhile conducting comprehensive overview of the SoA network automation technologies in Industry 4.0, which gains high referable value for the researchers in the relative domain.