SMA: SRv6-Based Multidomain Integrated Architecture for Industrial Internet

Abstract

With the increasing requirements of industrial production efficiency, the Industrial Internet has played a very important role in the fourth industrial revolution. However, the current Industrial Internet still has many drawbacks, especially in terms of network systems, such as low network expansion, inconvenient troubleshooting, and low data transmission efficiency. For this motivation, a novel SRv6-based multidomain integrated architecture (SMA) for the Industrial Internet has been proposed. Multilayer controllers are deployed in the SMA, and a software-defined network controller that generates the transmission path is replaced by SMA nodes, which realizes the high network scalability and efficient data transmission of the Industrial Internet. The faulty node in the SMA can be quickly and accurately identified through the periodic detection actively sent by the controller node in the domain and the passive feedback of the SMA nodes, and the generated SMA node trusted set (SNTS) can be used for forwarding path generation. A Bellman–Ford algorithm with a hop count constraint based on the total number of SNTS nodes is proposed, which effectively avoids long-path forwarding and improves network resource utilization. Through theoretical analysis, the safety and scalability of the SMA have been fully verified. The simulation results of the SMA on the experimental platform show that the SMA is superior to the existing Industrial Internet network structure in terms of troubleshooting efficiency of faulty nodes, network throughput, and data communication overhead. In the Industrial Internet, when the proportion of SMA nodes reaches 30%, the SMA controller can control nearly 80% of the traffic. In addition, the maximum link utilization rate will be greatly reduced, which means better adjustment of network load balance.