Goal-Oriented Communication, Estimation, and Control Over Bidirectional Wireless LinksShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISSN 0090-6778, E-ISSN 1558-0857, Vol. 73, no 5, p. 3031-3045Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We consider a wireless networked control system (WNCS) with imperfect bidirectional links for real-time applications such as smart grids. To maintain the stability of WNCS, captured by the probability that plant state violates preset values, at minimal cost, heterogeneous physical processes are monitored by multiple sensors. This status information, such as dynamic plant state and Markov Process-based context information, is then received/estimated by the controller for remote control. However, scheduling multiple sensors and designing the controller with limited resources is challenging due to their coupling, delay, and transmission loss. We formulate a Constrained Markov Decision Problem (CMDP) to minimize violation probability with cost constraints. We reveal the relationship between the goal and different updating actions by analyzing the significance of information that incorporates goal-related usefulness and contextual importance. Subsequently, a goal-oriented deterministic scheduling policy is proposed. Two sensing-assisted control strategies and a control-aware estimation policy are proposed to improve the violation probability-cost tradeoff, integrated with the scheduling policy to form a goal-oriented co-design framework. Additionally, we explore retransmission in downlink transmission and qualitatively analyze its preference scenario. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed goal-oriented co-design policy outperforms previous work in simultaneously reducing violation probability and cost.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2025. Vol. 73, no 5, p. 3031-3045
Keywords [en]
Sensors; Costs; Wireless communication; Estimation; Job shop scheduling; Semantics; Robot sensing systems; Real-time systems; Event detection; Delays; Goal-oriented communications; wireless networked control systems; age of information
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-213892DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3485572ISI: 001489673200021Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85199591997OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-213892DiVA, id: diva2:1961683
Note
Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China [62401182]; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips [BCIC-23-K10]; Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Program [2022A0505050022, 2022B1515120018]; Shenzhen Science and Technology Program [ZDSYS20210623091808025, KQTD20190929172545139]; National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore, through Future Proof Reliable and Resilient Wireless Communications for Virtual Power Plant (W-VPP), under its Industry Alignment Fund (Prepositioning) (IAF-PP); Swedish Research Council (VR), ELLIIT; European Union (ETHER) [101096526]; European Union [101131481]; Villum Investigator Grant "WATER" from the Velux Foundation, Denmark
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