Di Benedetto, Maria Domenica (Univ. of L'Aquila), D’Innocenzo, Alessandro (Univ. of L’Aquila), Pola, Giordano (Univ. of L'Aquila), Rinaldi, Claudia (Univ. of L’Aquila), Santucci, Fortunato (Univ. of L’Aquila)

A Theoretical Framework for Control Over Wireless Networks

Scheduled for presentation during the Mini-Symposium "Distributed decision-making over ad hoc networks" (FrA09), Friday, July 28, 2006, 10:50−11:15, Room J

17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, July 24-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan

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Abstract

The main problem in control over wireless networks is conceiving a joint control algorithm and communication system design to optimize a given cost function. To solve this problem, we propose a theoretical framework derived from the Platform Based Design (PBD) methodology cite{Sgroi2003}. According to the PBD principles, we first map control specifications to communication network specifications involving a set of values of the communication parameters such as quantization noise, coding, modulation scheme, and power level. Then, a communication scheme is chosen according to the communications specifications so that the control specifications are satisfied. To do so, we use a hybrid system formalism that models the dynamical behavior of the communication scheme to capture the mixed continuous-discrete characteristics of the configuration parameters.