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Title: 5G Enabled Energy Innovation: Advanced Wireless Networks for Science (Workshop Report)

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1606538· OSTI ID:1606538
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  5. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
  6. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  7. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  8. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
  9. Xilinx Labs, San Jose, CA (United States)
  10. Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River National Lab. (SRNL)
  11. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  12. Univ. of Memphis, TN (United States)
  13. Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)
  14. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  15. Pathfinder Wireless, Seattle, WA (United States)
  16. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
  17. ESnet, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  18. US Ignite, Washington, DC (United States)
  19. Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
  20. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  21. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  22. City Univ. of New York (CUNY), NY (United States); City College of New York, NY (United States)
  23. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  24. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  25. Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, MD (United States)
  26. ESnet, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  27. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
  28. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
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Rapidly expanding, new telecommunications infrastructure based on 5G technologies will disrupt and transform how we design, build, operate, and optimize scientific infrastructure and the experiments and services enabled by that infrastructure, from continental-scale sensor networks to centralized scientific user facilities, from intelligent Internet of Things devices to supercomputers. Concurrently, 5G will introduce, or exacerbate, challenges related to protecting infrastructure and associated scientific data as well as to fully leveraging opportunities related to expanded infrastructure scale and complexity. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science operates scientific infrastructure, supporting some of the nation’s most advanced intellectual discoveries, spanning the country and including 30 world-class user facilities from supercomputers to accelerators. Along with field experiments and remote observatories, every aspect of DOE’s scientific enterprise will be affected by 5G, which amounts to a complete renovation of the underpinnings of the nation’s information infrastructure. In this report we explore the scientific opportunities and new research challenges associated with 5G, ranging from scalability to heterogeneity to cybersecurity. The rapid commercial deployment of 5G opens the opportunity to rethink and reinvent DOE’s scientific infrastructure and experimentation, from intelligent sensor networks at unprecedented scales to a digital continuum of cyberinfrastructure spanning low-power sensors, high-performance computing embedded within and at the edge of the network, and DOE’s large-scale user instrument and computing facilities. New programming paradigms, workflow and data frameworks, and AI-based system design, operation, and autonomous adaptation and optimization will be necessary in order to exploit these new opportunities. Field deployments and centralized scientific instruments can also be revolutionized, moving (without traditional performance penalties) from wired to wireless connectivity for data and control systems, improving flexibility, and opening new sensing modalities, including the use of the 5G electromagnetic spectrum itself as an environmental probe. For DOE science, in contrast to commercial 5G applications and settings, devices will be deployed in extreme environments such as cryogenically cooled instrument control systems and in remote settings with harsh conditions, requiring the design of new materials for RF communication and edge processing to operate in these regimes. Concurrently, 5G infrastructure comprises both hardware and sophisticated software systems - currently closed and proprietary. The cybersecurity challenges to 5G-empowered reinvention mirror the complexity and variety of new 5G features, from virtualization to private network slices to ubiquitous access. Research is also needed in order to accelerate the development of secure and open 5G software infrastructure, reducing reliance on hardware and software produced outside the United States and providing the transparency and rigorous evaluation and testing afforded through open software. Twelve broad research thrusts are laid out in four chapters, with a companion fifth chapter (and three additional research thrusts) underscoring the needs and opportunities for an aggressive testbed program co-designed by networking experts and scientists involved in the 15 research thrusts. The urgency of undertaking this research is fueled by a global, accelerating deployment of new telecommunications infrastructure that is designed for entertainment and commercial applications - barely scratching the surface of what 5G can do to extend U.S. leadership in scientific discovery.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
OSTI ID:
1606538
Resource Relation:
Conference: 5G-Enabled Energy Innovation Advanced Wireless Networks Workshop for Science , Chicago, IL (United States), 10-12 Mar 2020
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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