Title
Stochastic Sensor Scheduling For Multiple Dynamical Processes Over A Shared Channel
Abstract
We consider the problem of multiple sensor scheduling for remote state estimation over a shared link. A number of sensors monitor different dynamical processes simultaneously but only one sensor can access the shared channel at each time instant to transmit the data packet to the estimator. We propose a stochastic event-based sensor scheduling framework in which each sensor makes transmission decisions based on both the channel accessibility and the self event-triggering condition. The corresponding optimal estimator is explicitly given. By ultilizing the realtime information, the proposed schedule is shown to be a generalization of the time based ones and outperform the time-based ones in terms of the estimation quality. By formulating an Markov decision process (MDP) problem with average cost criterion, we can find the optimal parameters for the event-based schedule. For practical use, we also design a simple suboptimal schedule to mitigate the computational complexity of solving an MDP problem. We also propose a method to quantify the optimality gap for any suboptimal schedules.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
2016 IEEE 55TH CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC)
Mathematical optimization,Markov process,Scheduling (computing),Control theory,Computer science,Network packet,Markov decision process,Communication channel,Schedule,Estimator,Computational complexity theory
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-1546
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Duo Han11438.21
Junfeng Wu242833.16
Yilin Mo389151.51
Lihua Xie45686405.63