Rethinking Communication and Control for Low-Latency, High Reliability IoT Devices

The internet-of-things (IoT) revolution is bringing millions of physical devices online (e.g. cars, UAVs, homes, medical devices), enabling them to connect to each other in real-time, as well as to cloud services. Wireless communication will be critical in providing IoT connectivity. This work focuses on low-latency and ultra-reliable communications and networking that is critical for latency-sensitive, closed-loop control applications, like vehicle to vehicle communications, collaborative swam planning, and industrial control. In such latency sensitive applications, we need to rethink the networking stack, coding, networking architecture, and control design to enable communications and networking that can provide ultra-low latency (1ms) and ultra-high reliability (99.999%). This is far beyond what is currently possible and we need an understanding of what is possible and what are the fundamental limits for control system design over low-latency, high-reliability communications.