A control-theoretic perspective on the design of distributed agreement protocols

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1672-1679

  Roy, Sandip ^a   Saberi, Ali ^a   Herlugson, Kristin ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGREEMENT-PROTOCOL ANALYSIS; FAULT-TOLERANT PROTOCOL DESIGN; LAW DESIGN; QUASI-LINEAR MODEL;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 23944508632     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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