DBIS

Motivation

The Internet of Sustainable Production (IoSP) envisions interrelated, value-enhancing
circular economies as the future of industrial production. Essential to this vision are
mechanisms for accessing relevant data and corresponding dynamic decision-making algorithms.
The Digital Nervous System (DNS) is at the heart of these considerations and
intended to enable dynamic, event-based communication among highly diverse companies
that may even be unkown to each other beforehand. The DNS will provide its
participants with the right information at the right time, e.g., proposing alternative suppliers
in case shipments are delayed, as happened in 2021 with the EverGiven accident.
We aim to build the DNS using Information-Centric Networking, a network architecture
design that places information at the center of its addressing and routing mechanisms.
This way, the DNS can effectively route and interconnect information as needed, thus
enabling meaningful industrial collaborations. In this thesis, you will develop a first proofof-
concept implementation of the DNS, drawing heavily on practical use cases from our
IoSP collaboration partners to validate the efficacy of the implemented designs.

Your Task

In this thesis, you will first accustom yourself with different existing Information-Centric
Networking approaches, aiming to identify their respective strengths and weaknesses.
We will give you concrete input based on different use cases from the Internet of Production,
which you will use to select one of the available ICN variants. In a proof-of-concept
implementation, using your programming language of choice or the one used by the chosen
ICN framework, you will then realize the sketched concepts and finally evaluate the
performance of the developed system based on the provided use cases.

This thesis is advised in collaboration with Comsys.
If you are interested, contact:

Ike Kunze kunze@comsys.rwth-aachen.de
Liam Tirpitz tirpitz@dbis.rwth-aachen.de