Multi-agent system consensus in packet-switched networks

2007 European Control Conference, ECC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4598-4603

  Munz, Ulrich ^a   Papachristodoulou, Antonis ^b   Allgower, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consensus; multi agent systems; packet switched networks; stochastic and distributed delays

Indexed keywords

PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY;

CONSENSUS; CONTROL LAWS; DIGITAL NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED DELAYS; FIXED TOPOLOGIES; PACKET DELAY; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY; UNDERLYING GRAPHS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84927723000     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2007.7068976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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