Distributed and robust rate control for communication networks

DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-0534-5_1MaRDI QIDQ2997788zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tansu Alpcan

Publication date 9 May 2011

Published in Performance Models and Risk Management in Communications Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2211

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Network design and communication in computer systems (68M10) Communication networks in operations research (90B18) Other game-theoretic models (91A40) Decentralized systems (93A14)

Abstract: In many real world problems, control decisions have to be made with limited information. The controller may have no a priori (or even posteriori) data on the nonlinear system, except from a limited number of points that are obtained over time. This is either due to high cost of observation or the highly non-stationary nature of the system. The resulting conflict between information collection (identification, exploration) and control (optimization, exploitation) necessitates an active learning approach for iteratively selecting the control actions which concurrently provide the data points for system identification. This paper presents a dual control approach where the information acquired at each control step is quantified using the entropy measure from information theory and serves as the training input to a state-of-the-art Gaussian process regression (Bayesian learning) method. The explicit quantification of the information obtained from each data point allows for iterative optimization of both identification and control objectives. The approach developed is illustrated with two examples: control of logistic map as a chaotic system and position control of a cart with inverted pendulum.

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