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S2.3 Future industrial networks: Requirements, challenges, research and standardization needs
Marco Carugi (Huawei Technologies European Research Center, France) and Zhe Lou (Huawei
Technologies European Research Center, Germany)

Digital transformation is affecting most industries. A large spectrum of applications is expected to
be deployed in future industrial networks, with emerging industrial applications that include smart
grid, flexible manufacturing, remote mining and others. The support of these applications by the
underlying network infrastructures raises critical network challenges: demands for large-scale
deterministic networking, increased network security, reliability and privacy support, as well as
flexible addressing and routing capabilities, requiring fundamental advances in terms of
networking technologies, with consequent needs of further network research and standardization
efforts. This paper aims to provide an overview of critical network challenges to be addressed in
order to satisfy requirements of future industrial network applications. Networking technology
areas whose advances are fundamental in order to address the identified challenges are introduced.
Requirements for network research and standardization are highlighted.

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