On Energy-Aware Communication and Control Co-design in Wireless Networked Control Systems

Energy is a key resource in Networked Control Systems, in particular in applications concerning wireless networks. This paper reviews the multi-layer architecture of those systems in the light of their energy-use, and points out major contributions in the area of energy-management policies, layer per layer. This review of the literature is organized according to the layered communication architecture covering from bottom to top the Physical, Data Link, Network, and Application layers. We specifically focus on advances that concern energy-aware management in wireless communication and control co-design. It is argued that existing work is limited to single layer approaches, with a lack of design methods taking into account several layers.