Statement_of_Work_(SOW).pdf

Statement of Work

A Study of Information-Centric Network (ICN)-based Internet of

Things (IoT) with Wireless Network Deployments and Testbed

Experimentation

I. BACKGROUND

The Advanced Network Technology Division (ANTD) at the National Institute of Standards and

Technology (NIST) is collaborating with the Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) at NIST to develop a best-practice guideline for deployment of wireless technology in smart manufacturing environments.

Much of ANTD’s efforts have concentrated on wireless network design and deployments in industrial environments as well as developing innovative information dissemination approaches to enable reliable and secure wireless transmissions of sensing and control message updates in manufacturing plants.

ANTD has developed a software evaluation framework for wireless data transmissions in a standard chemical production plant and evaluated individual packet receptions in harsh industrial environments. ANTD has also conducted channel usage analysis based on passive channel measurements in different industrial plants and conducted a comprehensive survey of existing and potential wireless control applications in various industrial Internet of Things

(IoT) scenarios. ANTD wishes to leverage our past work to deploy latest information-centric network (ICN) techniques to supplement existing IP-based factory communication platform and build a wireless testbed to explore, measure and demonstrate the key technical elements in the deployment of ICN-IoT solutions.

The main objective of this new project is to build an ICN-based IoT testbed that demonstrates representative use cases of wireless control for manufacturing industry. This would also require expanding current model library in the simulation-based evaluation framework to evaluate testbed design proposals before actual implementations.

II. SCOPE OF WORK

The Contractor shall work closely in a multi-disciplinary team of engineers to design, build, and test a wireless IoT testbed to mimic a typical discrete system control use case in manufacturing industries.

The Contractor shall develop an ICN solution to enable ICN-based information dissemination in the testbed architecture. The Contractor shall also assess the proposed ICN solution for the target use case through simulations to evaluate the performance of ICN-IoT with wireless connections.

III. SPECIFIC TASKS

The Contractor shall be responsible for project oversight, equipment, administration, and technical execution of this contract. The Contractor shall deliver a report on representative use cases of wireless control application in manufacturing industry and new simulation software modules with the following specific tasks in the twelve months of the project.

1. Support the deployment of an ICN-based IoT testbed in the EL lab that mimic assembly lines with robots. Participate as part of a team to design and prototype with sensor/actuator boards.

2. Model and simulate the use case using tools such as NDNsim (in NS-3) or OMNET++

3. Design experiments in simulation and testbed of Task 1 & 2 to conduct performance measurements and comparisons with non-ICN technologies, and suggest protocol enhancements.

4. Conduct wireless network study to achieve scalability of the IoT network to a large number of devices through appropriate approaches in communication layers such as MAC, network, transport, and application. Evaluate these approaches in the industrial applications of Task 1 as a use case as well as other use cases such as deployable networks for disaster/emergency response.

5. Document the results and findings as appropriate, particularly in the form of technical paper(s) in relevant technical conference.

DELIVERABLES AND DELIVERABLE DUE DATES

The following deliverables shall be completed during the period of performance in Phase I. All deliverables are subject to clause 52.227-17, Rights in Data—Special Works.

Description Format Due date (no later than)

1 Monthly progress review meetings with the Contracting

Officer’s Representative

(COR)

Progress report Monthly

2 Design documents and study materials on the wireless ICN-

IoT testbed implementation

Written hardcopy report and/or PowerPoint presentation

Specified by the lead of the testbed project according to the project schedule

Implement the ICN function module into the IoT simulation platform.

NIST GitHub commits and document

Specified by the lead of the testbed project according to the project schedule

4 Wireless network study report on IoT scalability in industrial applications and disaster/emergency response

Written hardcopy report and/or PowerPoint presentation

February 28, 2019

5 Final report on the overall system and its performance

Written hardcopy report, conference paper submission and

PowerPoint presentation

April 30, 2019

Standards for Acceptance of Deliverables: The COR shall provide comments on each deliverable within __14___ calendars days from receipt of a given deliverable. The Contractor shall make any needed changes to the deliverables within __14___ calendar days from receipt of electronic or written comments from the COR.

IV. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The period of performance shall be May 14, 2018 – May 13, 2019.

V. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

All the tasks specified in Section III shall be accomplished at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland. The

Contractor shall work Monday through Friday with the exception of Federal holidays or other official closures.

VI. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY, DATA AND/OR INFORMATION

All property, data and information provided by the Government in the performance of this requirement remains the property of the Government and shall be surrendered to the Government upon completion or termination of this requirement. Likewise, all deliverables remain the property of the Government.

Upon award of this requirement, NIST will provide on-site office space, workstation, PC, email and

Internet access, telephone, routine office supplies, and access to all facilities needed for the project.

The Contractor shall only access low risk general-purpose IT equipment and common network services available to NIST associates.

VII. RISK ASSESSMENT

The HSPD-12 Security Risk Level assigned to this contract is low risk.

VIII. PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT SURVELLIANCE MATRIX

Desired Output Required Service Performance Standard

Monitoring

Method

Continuous interaction between the Contractor and the Government during the course of the project

Meeting between the

Contractor and COR on a weekly basis

The Contractor shall demonstrate step-by-step progress in developing the software package and testbed implementations

NIST COR

shall monitor the

Contractor productivity on a weekly basis.

Design documents and study materials on the wireless ICN-IoT testbed implementation

Design documents and study materials depict the functions and interfaces of modules in the testbed architecture.

The design should follow the performance and environmental requirements as specified by the project team in collaboration with NIST

EL researchers. The proposed module interfaces should follow the standardized data

NIST COR

shall review the written report and determine its acceptability.

Desired Output Required Service Performance Standard

Monitoring

Method flows in the whole architecture with the probing capability for key performance metric monitoring.

ICN function module in the IoT simulation platform.

The simulation code enables ICN functions to replace conventional IP-based network operations in wireless data dissemination for industrial IoT applications.

The ICN module should be compatible with communication protocol stack in the simulator.

Necessary modifications in the related functions modules should be made to support ICN-enabled transmissions. Additional diagnostic interfaces should be added in the platform to record ICN-related network activities for performance analysis.

NIST COR

shall review the progress of the model development and determine its acceptability.

Wireless network study report on IoT scalability in industrial applications and disaster/emergency response

The study aims to identify key design elements that influence the scalability of an IoT solution given the increase of users and traffic loads. It also evaluates the role of 5G communication techniques in IoT deployments as well as the recent Common Public

Radio Interface (CPRI).

The discussion on deployable networks for disaster/emergency response is highly preferred.

The proposed study report should address design elements in communication protocol layers, such as MAC, network, transport, and application, and compare the performance of different approaches.

Recent progress in CPRI and in 5G IoT development should be included which covers architecture design and real implementation cases.

NIST COR

shall review the progress of the model development and determine its acceptability.

Final report covers the design, test and evaluation work in this project. Demonstrations and suggestions on expanding the design to

Review the development of the testbed and simulation modules to conclude design remarks for wireless system design in industrial IoT

The final report should be of high quality so that it can be submitted for publication at major

IEEE conferences and journals related to

NIST COR

shall review the written report and determine its acceptability.

Desired Output Required Service Performance Standard

Monitoring

Method test bed are also desired as the project output.

applications. Key design factors and deployment notes are concluded and the comparison is made with the traditional IP-based wireless communication stacks in critical service metrics.

industrial communications and wireless networks.

IX. MINIMUM CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS

The tasks and deliverables defined in this PWS require the Contractor to possess theoretical knowledge and practical experience in wireless communications, machine-to-machine communications, and in particular, industrial wireless network protocols (e.g., Wi-Fi, WirlessHART/ISA100.11a, and massive and ultra-reliable low latency communications in 5G). The Contractor should also be familiar with

ICN/NDN/CCN concepts and the standalone and non-standalone deployments in communication architectures. The Contractor should be able to independently conduct mathematical modeling of discrete system control systems and basic controller design. In addition, the Contractor should be proficient in the use of OMNET++/C++ to develop new modules for the co-simulation evaluation framework during the course of this project. Knowledge of Matlab and Python is required for data processing and analysis. Software version control knowledge and GitHub management are also appreciated.