Control and performance evaluation of systems with delayed information

Motivated by applications in High-speed telecommunication networks, we analyze and design optimal controllers of queueing networks when the information available to the controller is delayed.

Papers:

Altman and P. Nain , Closed-loop control with delayed information , Proceedings of the ACM Sigmetrics Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems , (New Port, Rhode Island), pp. 193-204, ACM, June 1992.
E. Altman and G. Koole , Control of a random walk with noisy delayed information, Systems and Control Letters , Vol. 24, pp. 207-213, 1995.
E. Altman, D. Kofman and U. Yechiali , Discrete time queues with delayed information, QUESTA , Vol. 19, pp. 361-376, 1995.
E. Altman and S. Stidham , Optimality of monotonic policies for two-action Markovian decision processes, with applications to control of queues with delayed information , invited paper, QUESTA , Vol. 21, special issue on optimization of queueing systems, pp. 267-291, 1995.
E. Altman and T. Basar , Optimal Rate Control for High Speed Telecommunication Networks: the case of delayed information , First Workshop on ATM Traffic Management , WATM'95, IFIP, WG.6.2 Broadband Communication, Paris, December 1995.
E. Altman, R. Marquez and U. Yechiali , Admission and Routing Control with Partial Information and Limited Buffers , International Journal of Systems Science , Vol. 34, No. 10-11, 615-626, 2003. [ps,pdf]
E. Altman and T. Basar , Optimal Rate Control for High Speed Telecommunication Networks, 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 1995, New Orleans, Louisiana, (invited paper). A more detailed version: Research report UILU-ENG-95-2235, DC-169, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October, 1995.
E. Altman and T. Basar , Optimal Rate Control for High Speed Telecommunication Networks: the case of delayed information , First Workshop on ATM Traffic Management , WATM'95, IFIP, WG.6.2 Broadband Communication, Paris, December 1995.
O. Ait-Hellal , E. Altman and T. Basar , Rate based flow control with bandwidth information , (invited paper) European Trans. on Telecom. , special issue on ABR, pp. 55-66, 1996. A short version (invited paper) the proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Kobe, Japan, Dec. 1996.
E. Altman and T. Basar , Multi-user rate-based flow control , IEEE Trans. on Communications , pp. 940-949, 1998.
E. Altman, T. Basar and R. Srikant , Multi-user rate-based flow control with action delays: a team-theoretic approach , Proc. of the 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , San Diego, California, Dec. 1997.
E. Altman, T. Basar and R. Srikant , Robust rate control for ABR sources , IEEE INFOCOM , San-Fransisco, California, USA, March 29 - April 2, 1998.
E. Altman, T. Basar and R. Srikant , Congestion control as a stochastic problem with action delays , AUTOMATICA , Special issue on Control Methods for Communication Networks, Anantharam and Walrand Eds., Dec., 1999.
E. Altman, T. Basar and N. Hovakimian, Worst-case rate-based flow control with an ARMA model of the available bandwidth , Anals of Dynamic Games , Vol. 6, Birkhauser, V. Gaitsgory, J. Filar and K. Mizukami, editors, pp. 3-29, 2000.
Omar Ait-Hellal and Eitan Altman, "Stability of ABR congestion control using the theory of delayed differential equatioins", International Journal of Systems Science, 34:10, 575-584, 2003. pdf.
Eitan Altman, Vijay Kamble and Alonso Silva, "Stochastic Games with One-Step Delay Sharing Information Pattern with Application to Power Control", GameNets International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, 13-15 May 2009, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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