CPS: Small: Dynamically Managing the Real-Time Fabric of a Wireless Sensor-Actuator Network

This project studies the implementation of feedback control algorithms over wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs), particularly with regard to the management of large-scale networked systems such as the electric power grid or water distribution networks. Controlling such physical processes usually requires some form of hard real-time support, so that each packet of feedback data must be serviced within a specified deadline. It has, in practice, been difficult to provide such guarantees in real-life wireless networks. This project addresses that issue by developing algorithms that allow control applications and wireless network nodes to work together in maximizing application performance subject to hard real-time service constraints.