Communication and Consensus Co-Design for Low-Latency and Reliable Industrial IoT Systems
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Designing fast and reliable distributed consensus protocols is a key to enabling mission-critical and real-time controls of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) nodes communicating over wireless links. However, chasing both low-latency and reliability of a consensus protocol at once is a challenging task. The problem is even aggravated under wireless connectivity that is slower and less reliable, compared to wired connections presumed in traditional consensus protocols. To tackle this issue, we investigate fundamental relationships between consensus latency and reliability under wireless connectivity, and thereby co-design communication and consensus protocols for low-latency and reliable IIoT systems. Specifically, we propose a novel communication-efficient distributed consensus protocol, termed Random Representative Consensus (R2C), and show its effectiveness under gossip and broadcast communication protocols. To this end, we derive closed-form end-to-end (E2E) latency expression of R2C that guarantees a target reliability, and compare this with a baseline consensus protocol, referred to as Referendum Consensus (RC).
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