  This paper addresses finite-time horizon optimal control of single-loop
networked control systems with stochastically modeled communication channel and
disturbances. To cope with the uncertainties, an optimization-based control
scheme is proposed which uses a disturbance feedback and the age of information
as central aspects. The disturbance feedback is an extension of the control law
used for balanced stochastic optimal control previously proposed for control
systems without network. Balanced optimality is understood as a compromise
between minimizing of expected deviations from the reference and minimization
of the uncertainty of future states. Time-varying state constraints as well as
time-invariant input constraints are considered, and the controllers are
synthesized by semi-definite programs.
