An important class of networked control systems (NCS)
are now being implemented over wireless networks because
of the need for node mobility in many applications. These
systems are known as wireless networked control systems
(WNCS). The simplest WNCS includes a plant and a controller
with point to point wireless communication between them
[2]–[4]. An advanced version of WNCS applies the control
mechanism over multi-hop mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET)
that are self-organizing and can be easily deployed without any
infrastructure. Additionally, it can recover or re-configure after
failure. Broadly speaking, WNCS over MANET can be applied
in many applications. However, designing a successful WNCS
over MANET brings new challenges to the researchers because
of MANET’s unpredictable aspects such as topology change,
node mobility, delay, jitter etc. These may lead to performance
degradation and even system instability.