Networked delay control for 5G wireless machine-type communications using multiconnectivity

Automatic control using ultrareliable and low latency communication is one of the potential applications of the new fifth-generation wireless systems. A remaining challenge is then to guarantee a low end-to-end delay with low jitter over combined internet and wireless interfaces that are packet switched and capacity optimized. The main novelty of this paper is to introduce stringent delay control to meet this challenge, over simultaneous multiple data paths. The proposed multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) cascade control system is nonlinear since the dwell times of the transmission node queues used as actuators cannot be negative. Stability analysis based on integral quadratic constraint theory is, therefore, applied to characterize the global stability of the controller. The practical performance is evaluated with experiments using product like test bed C++ code. It is stressed that the proposed controller does not require internode time synchronization.