title: Cross-Layer Adaptive Feedback Scheduling of Wireless Control Systems.
abstract: There is a trend towards using wireless technologies in networked control systems. However, the adverse properties of the radio channels make it difficult to design and implement control systems in wireless environments. To attack the uncertainty in available communication resources in wireless control systems closed over WLAN, a cross-layer adaptive feedback scheduling (CLAFS) scheme is developed, which takes advantage of the co-design of control and wireless communications. By exploiting crosslayer design, CLAFS adjusts the sampling periods of control systems at the application layer based on information about deadline miss ratio and transmission rate from the physical layer. Within the framework of feedback scheduling, the control performance is maximized through controlling the deadline miss ratio. Key design parameters of the feedback scheduler are adapted to dynamic changes in the channel condition. An eventdriven invocation mechanism for the feedback scheduler is also developed. Simulation results show that the proposed approach is efficient in dealing with channel capacity variations and noise interference, thus providing an enabling technology for control over WLAN.
authors.affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. f.xia@ieee.org.|Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia. f.xia@ieee.org.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. lhma@iipc.zju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Longhua
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Automation Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210042, China.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
authors.forename: Youxian
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
authors.forename: Jinxiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dong
keywords: cross-layer; event-triggered; feedback scheduling; wireless control systems