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Search Publications by: Richard Candell (Fed)

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Mapping Industrial Wireless Deployments onto Individual Use Cases

August 27, 2024
Author(s)
Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell
Industrial wireless is crucial for the vision of increased intelligence in industrial automation and enhanced connectivity in various industrial scenarios. Although general requirements are usually defined for deploying industrial wireless networks in

An Industrial Private 5G Testbed for Networked Automation Systems

August 22, 2024
Author(s)
Jing Geng, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell
Interest in integrating wireless communication capabilities into industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has surged recently. Driven by advantages like ease of deployment, reduced maintenance costs, and asset mobility, CPSs now employ wireless

Latency-Sensitive Networked Control Using 802.11ax OFDMA Triggering

August 22, 2024
Author(s)
Karl Montgomery, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell
Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is a feature implemented in IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) that aims to improve performance by sending packets simultaneously to multiple users. This paper highlights performance issues when using OFDMA with a

Laboratory-Based Reference Channels for Millimeter-Wave Wireless Device Measurements

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Joshua Kast, Paritosh Manurkar, Sudantha Perera, Mohamed Hany, Rob Horansky, Rick Candell, Kate Remley, Matt Simons
Industrial and consumer wireless devices increasingly make use of millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies to meet increasing requirements for bandwidth, device density, and latency. The complex propagation environment and design of phased-array antennas pose

Wireless Deployment Challenges in Construction: A 5G Strategy

May 20, 2024
Author(s)
Richard Candell, Mohamed Hany, Jing Geng, Karl Montgomery
In the construction context, integrating 5G networks presents numerous challenges. Tiis article explores deploying wireless communication networks within construction projects, introducing a comparison approach to assess deployment difficulty at each

Empirical Characterization of Doppler in Industrial Wireless Channels

April 16, 2024
Author(s)
Dreyelian Morejon, Jon Montalban, Eneko Iradier, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Pablo Angueira
This paper analyzes the temporal variation of the radio propagation channel in industrial environments. The results have been obtained by processing empirical data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in a field measurement

A Characterization of OFDMA Uplink Activation for Industrial Applications

February 5, 2024
Author(s)
Karl Montgomery, Rick Candell
This report serves to determine how Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is triggered in commercial IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) access points for industrial application scenarios. It presents an overview of OFDMA and how it works in IEEE 802

Energy-Efficient Access Point Deployment for Industrial IoT Systems

October 26, 2023
Author(s)
Xiaowen Qi, Jing Geng, Mohamed Hany, Shuvra Bhattacharyya, Rick Candell
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have impacted many fields by opening up much deeper and more extensive integration of communications connectivity, sensing, and embedded processing. The industrial sector is among the areas that have been impacted

Industrial Wireless Cyberphysical Systems Performance Using Deep Learning

June 12, 2023
Author(s)
Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Karl Montgomery
Industrial wireless communications networks have a major role in the future industrial cyber-physical systems (CPSs) to have higher flexibility and massive machine connectivity. However, the impact of the industrial wireless on the reliability and latency

A Deep Learning Framework for Industrial Wireless Networks

July 25, 2023
Author(s)
Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell
In this report, we introduce a framework to analyze, monitor, and identify the state of industrial wireless networks and their impact on industrial use cases. This framework is based on a deep learning approach for modeling the interactions between the

Wideband Cyclostationary Spectrum Analysis for Smart Factory Wireless Channels

July 5, 2023
Author(s)
Peter Vouras, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell
Smart and highly automated factories rely on time sensitive networks (TSNs) to coordinate the actions of robots working together to complete a task. The dense layout of metallic objects on the factory floor creates a complex electromagnetic environment

Optimized Sparse Sampling Lattices

March 7, 2023
Author(s)
Peter Vouras, Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley
Sparse sampling approaches have been widely studied to achieve less complex measurement systems while maintaining detection performance. In this paper, we derive a new gradient implementation of an alternating projections algorithm that determines the

Wideband Synthetic Aperture Test Bed for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

March 7, 2023
Author(s)
Peter Vouras, Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley
This paper describes a spherical beamforming implementation for wideband synthetic aperture channel sounders that can be used to predict the scattering performance of an Intelligent Reflection Surface (IRS). An IRS creates controlled propagation conditions

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Automated Chamber Configuration Replicating mmWave Directional Industrial Channel Behavior

January 25, 2023
Author(s)
Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley, Matt Simons
Industrial wireless channels have different characteristics than home and office channels due to their reflective nature. Moreover, the millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless bands can play a big role in improving industrial wireless systems due to their large

An IEEE Standard for the Evaluation of Wireless Networks for Industrial Automation

November 15, 2022
Author(s)
Rick Candell, Mohamed Hany, Javier Perez-Ramirez, Juan Conchas
Adoption of wireless systems for use in industrial scenarios is increasing, although slowly, in process control and discrete manufacturing. In particular, factories must make the leap towards wireless networks as a central form of communications to enable

Operational Impacts of IEEE 802.1Qbv Scheduling on a Collaborative Robotic Scenario

October 17, 2022
Author(s)
Rick Candell, Karl Montgomery, Mohamed Hany, Susruth Sudhakaran, Justin Albrecht, Dave Cavalcanti
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is an emerging topic for the advancement of wireless networking for industrial applications. TSN, as defined under the umbrella of IEEE 802.1 standards, addresses issues related to providing deterministic communications over