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Slicing can be performed at the Core Network or at the Radio Access Network (RAN), where RAN slicing is critical because it contributes substantially to end-to-end latency. This study proposes a latency-sensitive 5G RAN slicing approach, including slice design and radio-resource partitioning to meet rate and latency needs for deterministic and non-deterministic traffic in Industry 4.0 scenarios.","This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited. Content may change prior to final publication. Citation information: DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2944719, IEEE  \nAccess  \nLatency-Sensitive 5G RAN Slicing for Industry 4.0  \nJan García-Morales,(Member, IEEE), M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ,(Member, IEEE), and  \nJavier Gozalvez,(Senior Member, IEEE)  \nUWICORE Laboratory, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), Elche 03202, Spain  \nCorresponding author: M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ ([e-mail: m.lucas@umh.es](e-mail: m.lucas@umh.es)).  \nThis work has been funded by the European Commission through the FoF-RIA Project AUTOWARE: Wireless Autonomous, Reliable and Resilient Production Operation Architecture for Cognitive Manufacturing (No. 723909), and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness, AEI, and FEDER funds (TEC2017-88612-R) .  \nABSTRACT Network slicing is a novel 5G paradigm that exploits the virtualization and softwarization of networks to create different logical network instances over a common network infrastructure. Each instance is tailored for specific Quality of Service (QoS) profiles so that network slicing can simultaneously support several services with diverse requirements. Network slicing can be applied at the Core Network or at the Radio Access Network (RAN) . RAN slicing is particularly relevant to support latency-sensitive or timecritical applications since the RAN accounts for a significant part of the end-to-end transmission latency. In this context, this study proposes a novel latency-sensitive 5G RAN slicing solution. The proposal includes schemes to design slices and partition (or allocate) radio resources among slices. These schemes are designed with the objective to satisfy both the rate and latency demands of diverse applications. In particular, this study considers applications with deterministic aperiodic, deterministic periodic and nondeterministic traffic. The latency-sensitive 5G RAN slicing proposal is evaluated in Industry 4.0 scenarios where stringent and/or deterministic latency requirements are common. However, it can be evolved to support other verticals with latency-sensitive or time-critical applications.  \nINDEX TERMS RAN slicing, network slicing, 5G, Industry 4 .0, latency-sensitive, time-critical, deterministic, slices, creation, partitioning, allocation, radio resource management, optimization.  \nI. INTRODUCTION  \n5G networks will support the digitalization of key verticals such as manufacturing, automotive, e-health and energy [1] . The digitalization of factories will create smarter and adaptive factories for safer, more energy-efficient and zerodefect production [2] . 5G networks will play a significant role in the development of this Industry 4.0 or Factories of the Future (FoF) vision. The 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) and the 3GPP have already defined Industry 4.0 use cases that can be supported by 5G [3] . This includes use cases related to factory control, monitoring, process automation and maintenance. These use cases include applications with diverse QoS (Quality of Service) requirements in terms of data rate, reliability and latency. These applications can be matched into the 5G service categories: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) and ultraReliable Low Latency Communications (uRLLC) . uRLLC  \nservices are of particular relevance to the Industry 4.0 that generally demands low and deterministic latency levels.  \n5G introduces significant novelties to support the digitalization of verticals, including the Industry 4.0. This includes a New Radio (NR) interface with different numerologies for a flexible use of the radio resources [4] . 5G NR significantly improves the capacity to provide reliable wireless communications with low latency levels. 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