Towards 5G-Enabled Operational Technology for Process Monitoring and Network Slicing

Conference · Sun Nov 26 23:00:00 EST 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/RWS58133.2023.10284597· OSTI ID:3003241

Aguayo, Jared M. ^[1]; Rivera, Abel O. Gomez ^[1]; Tosh, Deepak K. ^[1]

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1. University of Texas at El Paso,Department of Computer Science,TX,USA

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are deployed to monitor physical processes in critical cyber-enabled services like power generation. However, CPS ecosystems are typically designed without robust security. While it is important to ensure optimal performance of the Operational Technology (OT) environments, security cannot be overlooked. To modernize traditional OT services, 5G technology is being integrated. 5G technology offers low latency and high availability, making it a suitable infrastructure for managing and monitoring physical processes. How-ever, integrating 5G mechanisms into large-scale OT networks introduces new implementation and performance challenges. Therefore, this paper presents a 5G-enabled CPS architecture (5G-CPS) that describes the necessary components, services, and communication protocols and conducts feasibility study to integrate 5G technology in industrial control system networks to understand the performance merits. The 5G-CPS architecture aims to minimize implementation and operational challenges associated with integrating 5G technology into constrained OT.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Sponsoring Organization: Department of Energy
• DOE Contract Number: FE0032089
• OSTI ID: 3003241
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English