The industrial scenario is undergoing exponential changes, mainly due to the different
technologies that emerge quickly and the ever increasing demand. As a consequence, the …

Internet of things (IoT) has been a noteworthy zone of research for empowering
interconnection and joining the physical world through the Internet. At the beginning, it was …

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a new paradigm to train machine learning (ML)
models in distributed systems. Rather than sharing and disclosing the training data set with …

Industrial communication systems represent one of the most important innovations of the last
decades in the context of factory and process automation systems. They are networks …

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an emerging area that fifth-generation (5G) mobile
communication system penetrates industrial manufacturing applications. The indoor factory …

As one of the latest fields of interest in both academia and industry, quantum computing has
garnered significant attention. Among various topics in quantum computing, variational …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a key enabling technology of industrial Internet of
Things (IIoT) that provides dynamic reconfiguration to improve data network robustness. In …

Many of the Industry 4.0 approaches are of a technical nature, and by develo** new
intelligent technologies and adapting and transferring existing techniques, they will help …

Wireless networks are ever more deployed in the industrial control scenario, thanks to the
numerous benefits they can bring, especially in terms of costs and flexibility. However, some …

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is a key enabling technology for the future
industrial Internet of Things applications. It plays an important role in the connectivity and …