State-Aware Resource Allocation for Wireless Closed-Loop Control Based on Multi-Connectivity

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Abstract

Control communications co-design enables robust and scalable wireless closed-loop control system design. We study the metric “control-communications availability” that allows consecutive errors until the control application is deemed dysfunctional. Multi-connectivity helps increasing the network availability, but there is a lack of dynamic and resource efficient link management. Thus, we propose the “state-aware resource allocation” scheme, whereby parallel links can be assigned adaptively to a given connection, depending on the number of previously, consecutively lost packets. We develop a Markov chain that captures the novel resource allocation approach suited for closed-loop wireless control applications. Our approach outperforms static dual connectivity by two orders of magnitude in terms of control-communications availability while reducing the amount of required resources to approximately half.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM 2020 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (print)978-1-7281-8299-5
Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference
SubtitleCommunications for Human and Machine Intelligence
Abbreviated titleGLOBECOM 2020
Duration7 - 11 December 2020
Website
LocationOnline
CityTaipei
CountryTaiwan, Province of China

External IDs

Scopus 85100882571
ORCID /0000-0002-0738-556X/work/197320467

Keywords

Keywords

  • Wireless communication, Packet loss, Markov processes, Dynamic scheduling, Control systems, Resource management, Global communication