Robust flow control in data-communication networks with multiple time-delays

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1529-1548

  Ünal, Hakki Ulaş ^a   Ataşlar Ayyildiz, Banu ^b   Iftar, Altuǧ ^a   Özbay, Hitay ^c  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Datacommunication networks; Flow control; H based control; Multiple time delays; Robust control; Time delay systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROL PROBLEMS; DATA-COMMUNICATION; FLOW CONTROL PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROLLER; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ROBUST CONTROLLER DESIGN; SIMULATION STUDIES; SUBOPTIMAL CONTROLLERS; SUBOPTIMAL SOLUTION; TIME DOMAIN; TIME VARYING; TIME-DELAY SYSTEMS;

DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLOW CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUST CONTROL; TIME DELAY; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77956387163     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: 10991239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1535     Document Type: Article

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