AoI-Aware Control and Communication Co-Design for Industrial IoT Systems

A mass of data generated by the widespread smart devices is transmitted through wireless communication networks for estimation and control in the Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT) systems. The frequent data transmission needs to meet the high reliability and real-time demand of IIoT applications...

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Published in:IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 8; no. 10; pp. 8464 - 8473
Main Authors: Wang, Xiaolin, Chen, Cailian, He, Jianping, Zhu, Shanying, Guan, Xinping
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 15.05.2021
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Age of Information (AoI)
Automation
Co-design
Communication
communication and control co-design
Communication networks
Control theory
Cost analysis
Data communication
Data transmission
Delays
Electronic devices
Energy consumption
Freshness
Industrial applications
Industrial Internet of Things
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Internet of Things
Linear functions
Mixed integer
Nonlinear programming
Optimal control
Optimization
Process control
Reliability
Transmitters
Wireless communications
ISSN:2327-4662, 2327-4662
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Summary:A mass of data generated by the widespread smart devices is transmitted through wireless communication networks for estimation and control in the Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT) systems. The frequent data transmission needs to meet the high reliability and real-time demand of IIoT applications because the freshness of status updates influences the system performance. In this work, we use the Age of Information (AoI) to characterize the information freshness since it is a powerful metric to capture the randomness of state updates. Meanwhile, AoI is very useful in the control and communication co-design to improve the control performance considering communication disturbance. In order to analyze the control cost, we first derive the specific expression average AoI under the packet loss with finite retransmission times. Then, we investigate the influence of average AoI on control performance and obtain the joint cost combining communication energy consumption and control cost. According to the certainty equivalent principle, we design the optimal control law separately. Besides, we prove that the optimal joint infinite horizon cost is bounded by the linear function of average AoI. The communication policy, including the data interarrival rate and code length, is designed by optimizing the mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINP) problem. Finally, simulation results reveal that, by employing the optimal data interarrival rate and code length, the joint control and communication cost is significantly reduced.
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ISSN:2327-4662
2327-4662
DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2020.3046742