Advances in Communication Control Networks

✍ Scribed by Christos Panayiotou, Christos G. Cassandras (auth.), Sophie Tarbouriech, Chaouki T. Abdallah, John Chiasson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science 308
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The area of communication and computer networks has become a very active field of research by the control systems community in the last years. Tools from convex optimization and control theory are playing increasing roles in efficient network utilization, fair resource allocation, and communication delay accommodation and the field of Networked Control systems is fast becoming a mainstay of control systems research and applications. This carefully edited book brings together solicited contributions from experts in the various areas of communication/control networks referring to both networks under control (control in networks) as well as networked control systems (control over networks). The aim of this book is to reverse the trend of fragmentation and specialization in Communication Control Networks connecting various interdisciplinary research fields including control, communication, applied mathematics and computer science.

✦ Table of Contents

Control of Communication Networks Using Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis of Stochastic Fluid Models....Pages 1-26
Stabilized Vegas....Pages 27-47
Robust Controller Design for AQM and $\mathcal{H}^{\infty}$ -Performance Analysis....Pages 49-63
Models and Methods for Analyzing Internet Congestion Control Algorithms....Pages 65-86
Delay Effects on the Asymptotic Stability of Various Fluid Models in High-Performance Networks....Pages 87-110
A Sliding Mode Approach to Traffic Engineering in Computer Networks....Pages 111-136
Modeling and Designing the Internet Congestion Control....Pages 137-158
Saturated Controller Design of an ABR Explicit Rate Algorithm for ATM Switches....Pages 159-176
State-Space Models for Control and Identification....Pages 177-197
Global Stability of Nonlinear Congestion Control with Time-Delay....Pages 199-221
On the Optimization of Load Balancing in Distributed Networks in the Presence of Delay....Pages 223-244
Closed Loop Control of a Load Balancing Network with Time Delays and Processor Resource Constraints....Pages 245-268
Position and Force Tracking in Bilateral Teleoperation....Pages 269-280
Suboptimal Control Techniques for Networked Hybrid Systems....Pages 281-301
Communication Requirements for Networked Control....Pages 303-326
An Introduction to Nonlinear Fault Diagnosis with an Application to a Congested Internet Router....Pages 327-343

✦ Subjects

Control Engineering; Communications Engineering, Networks; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Systems Theory, Control; Information Systems and Communication Service