A novel industrial control architecture based on Software-Defined Network

• Main Authors: Geng Liang, Wen Li
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-09-01
• Series: Measurement + Control
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/0020294018784310

Traditionally, routers and other network devices encompass both data and control functions in most large enterprise networks, making it difficult to adjust the network infrastructure and operation to large-scale addition of end systems, virtual machines, and virtual networks in industrial comprehensive automation. A network organizing technique that has come to recent prominence is the Software-Defined Network (SDN). A novel SDN based industrial control network (SDNICN) was proposed in this paper. Intelligent network components are included in a SDNICN. Switches in SDNICN provided fundamental network interconnection for the whole industrial control network. Network controller is used for data transmission, forwarding and routing control between different layers. Service Management Center (SMC) is essentially responsible for managing various services used in industrial process control. SDNICN can not only greatly improve the flexibility and performance of industrial control network but also meet the intelligence and informatization of the future industry.