Energy-Efficient Power Allocation in URLLC Enabled Wireless Control for Factory Automation Applications

The coming fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks encourage to support several innovations and services, some of which will demand Ultra-reliable and Low-latency Communications (URLLC). For instance, URLLC can support real-time control to facilitate several emerging applications, such as robotic arms in industrial applications, and remote surgery for healthcare applications. However, URLLC is expected to be supported without considering the resources usage efficiency in wireless control systems due to the challenging to satisfy Quality of Service (QoS) requirements at the expense of diminishing energy efficiency. In this paper, we analyze uplink energy efficiency in URLLC utilizing multiple antennas in the transmitter and the receiver as well (MIMO) in real-time wireless control systems. We firstly formulate an optimization problem to maximize energy efficiency concerning the effect of the control convergence rate constraint. Then, we develop an exhaustive search method to obtain the maximum energy efficiency. Finally, simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance of our proposed method.

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