Transmission power scheduling and control co-design for wireless sensor networks

This paper discusses transmission power scheduling and control co-design in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) under communication energy constraints, in which the dynamics of all mobile sensor nodes (MSNs) are assumed to be nonlinear. A most regular code sequence (MRCS) is introduced as the transmission power scheduling policy to automatically allocate the transmission power levels to MSNs thereby adhering to the given communication energy budget. The effects of the different transmission power levels on data transmission is explicitly characterized in this paper. By using a stochastic system analysis approach and average dwell time technique, a framework for the transmission power scheduling and control co-design is established. The control co-design algorithm is proposed to simultaneously determine the gain of the sampled-data feedback controller and the parameters of the generated MRCS. A numerical simulation is conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.