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Broadcasting protocols for coordinating nonlinear network systems
We propose a new methodology to design broadcasting protocols for coordinating nonlinear network systems. Our design of the scheduling of information transmission is based on the introduction of clock variables, whose dynamics are regulated through a suitable storage function. Required clock dynamics, ensuring stability, follow then elegantly from Lyapunov like arguments. For illustrative purposes, we first consider an example of a consensus algorithm, whereafter we discuss a distributed integral controller in feedback interconnection to a network composed of output strictly incrementally passive subsystems. Finally, we show how the proposed method can be used to redesign a popular distributed controller in power grids, enabling a sampled-data implementation
Low-complexity medium access control protocols for QoS support in third-generation radio access networks
One approach to maximizing the efficiency of
medium access control (MAC) on the uplink in a future wideband
code-division multiple-access (WCDMA)-based third-generation
radio access network, and hence maximize spectral efficiency,
is to employ a low-complexity distributed scheduling control
approach. The maximization of spectral efficiency in third-generation
radio access networks is complicated by the need to
provide bandwidth-on-demand to diverse services characterized
by diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements in an interference
limited environment. However, the ability to exploit the full
potential of resource allocation algorithms in third-generation
radio access networks has been limited by the absence of a metric
that captures the two-dimensional radio resource requirement,
in terms of power and bandwidth, in the third-generation radio
access network environment, where different users may have
different signal-to-interference ratio requirements. This paper
presents a novel resource metric as a solution to this fundamental
problem. Also, a novel deadline-driven backoff procedure has
been presented as the backoff scheme of the proposed distributed
scheduling MAC protocols to enable the efficient support of
services with QoS imposed delay constraints without the need
for centralized scheduling. The main conclusion is that low-complexity
distributed scheduling control strategies using overload
avoidance/overload detection can be designed using the proposed
resource metric to give near optimal performance and thus maintain
a high spectral efficiency in third-generation radio access
networks and that importantly overload detection is superior to
overload avoidance
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