Wireless Network Design for Control Systems: A Survey
Pangun Park, Sinem Coleri Ergen, Carlo Fischione, Chenyang Lu, Karl, Henrik Johansson

TL;DR
This survey comprehensively reviews wireless network design for control systems, emphasizing the interaction between communication parameters and control performance, and discusses current standards, optimization techniques, and future research directions.
Contribution
It provides an exhaustive overview of wireless network design and optimization specifically tailored for wireless networked control systems, highlighting the interplay of communication and control variables.
Findings
Joint tuning of communication and control variables improves system performance.
Wireless standards are adapting to support control system requirements.
Tradeoffs exist between control performance and network complexity.
Abstract
Wireless networked control systems (WNCS) are composed of spatially distributed sensors, actuators, and con- trollers communicating through wireless networks instead of conventional point-to-point wired connections. Due to their main benefits in the reduction of deployment and maintenance costs, large flexibility and possible enhancement of safety, WNCS are becoming a fundamental infrastructure technology for critical control systems in automotive electrical systems, avionics control systems, building management systems, and industrial automation systems. The main challenge in WNCS is to jointly design the communication and control systems considering their tight interaction to improve the control performance and the network lifetime. In this survey, we make an exhaustive review of the literature on wireless network design and optimization for WNCS. First, we discuss what we call the…
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