View source for To Drop or Not to Drop: Design Principles for Kalman Filtering Over Wireless Fading Channels

{{HTDB paper
| authors = Y Mostofi, Richard M Murray
| title = To Drop or Not to Drop: Design Principles for Kalman Filtering Over Wireless Fading Channels
| source = IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54(2):376-381
| year = 2009
| type = Published version
| funding = 
| url = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=4782189&isnumber=4781995&punumber=9&k2dockey=4782189@ieeejrns
| abstract = It is the general assumption that in estimation and control over wireless links, the receiver should drop any erroneous packets. While this approach is appropriate for non real-time data-network applications, it can result in instability and loss of performance in networked control systems. In this technical note we consider estimation of a multiple-input multiple-output dynamical system over a mobile fading communication channel using a Kalman filter. We show that the communication protocols suitable for other already-existing applications like data networks may not be entirely applicable for estimation and control of a rapidly changing dynamical system. We then develop new design paradigms in terms of handling noisy packets for such delay-sensitive applications. We reformulate the estimation problem to include the impact of stochastic communication noise in the erroneous packets. We prove that, in the absence of a permanent cross-layer information path, packet drop should be designed to balance information loss and communication noise in order to optimize the performance. 
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| tag = mm09-tac
| id = 2009i
}}