Joint Resource Allocation and Controller Selection for Communication and Control Co-Design

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a novel co-design strategy that jointly optimizes wireless resource allocation and controller selection for networked control systems under strict reliability and latency constraints. We aim to minimize the total system power consumption, comprising computation and transmission power, while ensuring desired control performance. To achieve this, we leverage refined finite blocklength (FBL) communication models to accurately capture short-packet transmission rates and integrate these with a multi-controller architecture that offers a variety of controllers with different reliability and computational demands. We formulate the joint resource allocation and controller scheduling problem as a mixed integer non-linear program (MINLP), which is non-convex and challenging to solve optimally. To address the computational complexity, we propose a low-complexity iterative algorithm that decomposes the original problem into two sub-problems: adaptive controller selection and optimal channel assignment. Simulation results show that the proposed method reduces the overall power consumption compared to conventional baseline strategies while satisfying both communication and control performance requirements.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2025 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China:Shaping the Future of Integrated Connectivity, ICCC 2025
Pages1-6
ISBN (electronic)979-8-3315-4444-7
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 11 Sept 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Mendeley 7198c3b9-258e-3ba5-9752-833d5aa898d2
unpaywall 10.1109/iccc65529.2025.11148824
ORCID /0000-0003-1315-8184/work/194258326
Scopus 105017602496

Keywords

Keywords

  • Communication-control codesign, finite blocklength (FBL), wireless networked control systems (WNCS)