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4. Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems
In this chapter, we shall study the stability of nonlinear switched and impulsive systems of the form...
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1. Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems
When you begin to read this book, you may ask: “what is a switched and impulsive system?” This is a question that may be best answered through...
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Synchronization in Complex Networks
The study of complex systems pervades all of science, from cell biology to ecology, from computer science to meteorology. A paradigm of a complex...
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Data Traffic, Topology and Congestion
We consider the interaction between the topology of a network and the tra.c carried along its channels. The binding elements between the topology and...
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Applications of Connectivity Graph Processes in Networked Sensing and Control
This paper concerns the problem of controlling mobile nodes in a network in such a way that the resulting graph-encoding of the inter-node...
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Plenary Talk: Delays in Control over Communication Networks: Characterization, Impact, and Reduction Strategies
The most notable trend in manufacturing over the past five years is probably the move towards networks at all levels of industrial systems. At lower...
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Homogeneous Semantics Preserving Deployments of Heterogeneous Networks of Embedded Systems
Tagged systems provide a denotational semantics for embedded systems. A heterogeneous network of embedded systems can be modeled mathematically by a...
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Distributed Kalman Filtering and Sensor Fusion in Sensor Networks
The problem of distributed Kalman filtering (DKF) for sensor networks is one of the most fundamental distributed estimation problems for scalable...
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Simulation of Large-Scale Networked Control Systems Using GTSNetS
This paper presents a simulation framework for distributed control using wireless sensor networks. The proposed framework is an extension of the...
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Disturbance Attenuation Bounds in the Presence of a Remote Preview
We study the fundamental limits of disturbance attenuation of a networked control scheme, where a remote preview of the disturbance is available. The...
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Delay-Reliability Tradeoffs in Wireless Networked Control Systems
Networked control systems (NCS) require the data to be communicated timely and reliably. However, random transmission errors incurred by wireless...
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Plenary Talk: The Role of Information Theory in Communication Constrained Control Systems
Communication is an important component of distributed, networked, and cooperative control systems. In most current systems the communication aspects...
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Belief Consensus and Distributed Hypothesis Testing in Sensor Networks
In this paper, we address distributed hypothesis testing (DHT) in sensor networks and Bayesian networks using the average-consensus algorithm of...
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Plenary Talk Network-Embedded Sensing and Control: Applications and Application Requirements
The first part of my talk will cover some recent commercially successful applications of networked and embedded sensing and control solutions. These...
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Communication Requirements for Networked Control
There is an increasing interest in studying control systems employing multiple sensors and actuators that are geographically distributed....
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Suboptimal Control Techniques for Networked Hybrid Systems
Over the past decade, major advancements in the areas of communications and computer networks [20] have made it possible for control engineers to...
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A Sliding Mode Approach to Traffic Engineering in Computer Networks
In this chapter, we address the problem of optimal Traffic Engineering (TE) in computer networks; i.e., determining an optimal traffic allocation in...
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Modeling and Designing the Internet Congestion Control
The Internet is a set of interconnected packet switching networks each of them having its own protocol. It was soon recognized the importance of...
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Delay Effects on the Asymptotic Stability of Various Fluid Models in High-Performance Networks
Roughly speaking, a communication network consists of a collection of (network users/sources) elements interconnected to transfer information or data...
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Closed Loop Control of a Load Balancing Network with Time Delays and Processor Resource Constraints
The objective of parallel processing is to reduce wall-clock time and increase the size of solvable problems by dividing the code into multiple...