The impressive advancements in embedded systems and the integration of new types of smart devices into the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to revolutionize the communication technologies. Gradually, such devices are enriched with additional capabilities (e.g., sense, learn, reason, move, act on the environment) beyond classic connectivity services. However, there are no unified and coherent software architectures to seamlessly integrate and manage high-end devices. This work envisages a novel architectural framework, ITHACA: IoT High-end Autonomous Cooper-Ative framework, for 5G and beyond communications toward seamless integration of autonomous and intelligent devices. The framework offers necessary functional enrichments on top of existing architecture involving functions, mechanisms, algorithms, and protocols. The usefulness of the proposed ITHACA framework is corroborated considering a recent Industry 4.0 use case of aerial robotics pertaining to design of an intelligent industrial infrastructure inspection system.

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一种高端物联网设备框架，可在5G / B5G架构中促进超越连接能力

嵌入式系统的惊人进步以及将新型智能设备集成到物联网（IoT）中，继续革新了通信技术。逐渐地，除了传统的连接服务之外，这种设备还增加了其他功能（例如，感知，学习，推理，移动，对环境进行操作）。但是，没有统一和一致的软件体系结构可以无缝集成和管理高端设备。这项工作设想了一个新颖的架构框架ITHACA：IoT高端自主合作伙伴框架，适用于5G及以后的通信，以实现自主和智能设备的无缝集成。该框架在涉及功能，机制，算法和协议的现有架构之上提供了必要的功能扩展。