Distributed or priority-based scheduling with performance guarantees for multi-agent WNCSs

Develop distributed or priority-based channel access and scheduling mechanisms for multiple wireless networked control systems that share a common wireless medium, and establish provable performance guarantees such as stability or bounded control cost under contention and interference constraints.

Background

When scaling from a single wireless networked control system (WNCS) to many WNCSs in a shared medium, centralized scheduling becomes impractical due to collisions, interference, and coordination complexity. The paper emphasizes that while distributed or priority-based policies are needed to manage shared access, formal guarantees on their performance are lacking.

This gap is critical for multi-agent systems where many control loops contend for bandwidth and real-time updates. Establishing mechanisms with rigorous guarantees would enable predictable control performance under communication constraints.