Goal-Oriented Communication and Control Co-Design via Semantic Push-Pull in Industrial IoT
Abstract
Emerging 6G industrial IoT architectures require wireless networked control systems capable of stabilizing diverse control loops over tightly constrained radio resources. Conventional periodic and Age-of-Information (AoI) based scheduling guarantees bounded staleness at the cost of persistent channel saturation. Conversely, pure event-triggered (PureET) strategies minimize transmissions but risk catastrophic silent deterioration when local sensor-side thresholds fail to reflect critical state evolution. To bridge this gap, we propose a communication-control co-design framework governed by a 6G Semantic Layer that independently arbitrates uplink and downlink resources. Instead of relying on freshness, our architecture evaluates the actual control impact of a packet using the state-to-error ratio (SER). We unify this control confidence with channel reliability in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to orchestrate a threshold-based sensor push and a state-aware controller pull mechanism. To ensure equitable resource allocation across dynamically heterogeneous plants, the proposed framework explicitly scales actuation deadbands according to local plant dynamics. Simulations over Rayleigh-faded channels demonstrate that this approach fundamentally shifts the Pareto frontier between transmission rate and control quality. The proposed scheme achieves tracking accuracy comparable to periodic schedulers at a reduced communication overhead, while mitigating the estimation errors characteristic of PureET.
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BibTeX
@misc{khan2026goaloriented,
title = {{Goal-Oriented Communication and Control Co-Design via Semantic Push-Pull in Industrial IoT}},
author = {Muhammad Azeem Khan and Yuriy Zacchia Lun and Aamir Mahmood and Piergiuseppe Di Marco and Mikael Gidlund and Fortunato Santucci},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.21566},
eprint = {2609.21566},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21566},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Goal-Oriented Communication and Control Co-Design via Semantic Push-Pull in Industrial IoT
AU - Muhammad Azeem Khan
AU - Yuriy Zacchia Lun
AU - Aamir Mahmood
AU - Piergiuseppe Di Marco
AU - Mikael Gidlund
AU - Fortunato Santucci
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/18
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.21566
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21566
AB - Emerging 6G industrial IoT architectures require wireless networked control systems capable of stabilizing diverse control loops over tightly constrained radio resources. Conventional periodic and Age-of-Information (AoI) based scheduling guarantees bounded staleness at the cost of persistent channel saturation. Conversely, pure event-triggered (PureET) strategies minimize transmissions but risk catastrophic silent deterioration when local sensor-side thresholds fail to reflect critical state evolution. To bridge this gap, we propose a communication-control co-design framework governed by a 6G Semantic Layer that independently arbitrates uplink and downlink resources. Instead of relying on freshness, our architecture evaluates the actual control impact of a packet using the state-to-error ratio (SER). We unify this control confidence with channel reliability in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to orchestrate a threshold-based sensor push and a state-aware controller pull mechanism. To ensure equitable resource allocation across dynamically heterogeneous plants, the proposed framework explicitly scales actuation deadbands according to local plant dynamics. Simulations over Rayleigh-faded channels demonstrate that this approach fundamentally shifts the Pareto frontier between transmission rate and control quality. The proposed scheme achieves tracking accuracy comparable to periodic schedulers at a reduced communication overhead, while mitigating the estimation errors characteristic of PureET.
ER -