# IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

## Issue 4 • Dec. 2018

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Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):C1 - 1506
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): C2
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• ### A Centrality-Based Security Game for Multihop Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1507 - 1516
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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We formulate a network security problem as a zero-sum game between an attacker who tries to disrupt a network by disabling one or more nodes, and the nodes of the network who must allocate limited resources to defend the network. The utility of the zero-sum game can be one of several network performance metrics that correspond to node centrality measures. We first present a fast centralized algori... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Sensor and Actuator Reconfiguration for Fault-Tolerant Networked Control Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1517 - 1528
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In this paper, we address the problem of distributed reconfiguration of networked control systems upon the removal of misbehaving sensors and actuators. In particular, we consider systems with redundant sensors and actuators cooperating to recover from faults. Reconfiguration is performed while minimizing a steady-state estimation error covariance and quadratic control cost. A model-matching condi... View full abstract»

• ### Energy Optimal Distributed Beamforming Using Unmanned Vehicles

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1529 - 1540
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In this paper, we consider a team of unmanned vehicles that are tasked with distributed transmit beamforming (virtual antenna array placement and design), in order to co-operatively transmit information to a remote station in realistic communication environments. We are interested in the energy-aware (both motion and communication energy) co-optimization of robotic paths and transmission powers fo... View full abstract»

• ### Self-Organization of Weighted Networks for Optimal Synchronizability

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1541 - 1550
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We show that a network can self-organize its existing topology, i.e., by adapting edge weights, in a completely decentralized manner in order to maximize its synchronizability while satisfying local constraints: we look specifically at nonnegativity of edge weights and maximum weighted degree of nodes. A novel multilayer approach is presented, which uses a decentralized strategy through which each... View full abstract»

• ### Fault-Tolerant Clock Synchronization Over Unreliable Channels in Wireless Sensor Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1551 - 1562
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In this paper, we study a distributed approach based on consensus algorithms for clock synchronization in wireless sensor networks. The sensor nodes face two types of uncertainties. One is that some of the nodes in the network can be faulty and transmit arbitrary signals by not following the given protocol; similar effects may be caused by false data injection by an external malicious attacker. Th... View full abstract»

• ### Cloud-Supported Formation Control of Second-Order Multiagent Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1563 - 1574
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This paper addresses a formation problem for a network of autonomous agents with second-order dynamics and bounded disturbances. Coordination is achieved by having the agents asynchronously upload (download) data to (from) a shared repository, rather than directly exchanging data with other agents. Well-posedness of the closed-loop system is demonstrated by showing that there exists a lower bound ... View full abstract»

• ### Event-Based Vehicle Coordination Using Nonlinear Unidirectional Controllers

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1575 - 1584
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This paper presents a framework to control vehicle platoons with event-based communication and nonlinear controllers. The overall goal is to achieve a platoon that moves in a desired formation with a desired velocity and the convergence to this formation should be exponential while Zeno behavior has to be excluded. The set of admissible controllers for this problem is specified by the properties t... View full abstract»

• ### Stochastic Consensus Control of Second-Order Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With External Disturbances

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1585 - 1596
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A distributed consensus control method is developed in this paper for second-order nonlinear multiagent systems with external stochastic disturbances. By utilizing the graph theory, the stochastic theory, the control technique, and the linear matrix inequality method, sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the convergence to mean-square exponential consensus for strongly connected proximit... View full abstract»

• ### Cooperative Estimation and Robust Synchronization of Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems With Coupled Measurements

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1597 - 1607
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In this paper, we present a distributed estimation setup where autonomous agents estimate their states from coupled measurements, that is, measurements that depend on multiple agents. For instance, in the case of multiagent systems, where only relative measurements are available, this is of high relevance. This paper proposes a distributed observer design solution, which is scalable with respect t... View full abstract»

• ### Generalized PID Synchronization of Higher Order Nonlinear Systems With a Recursive Lyapunov Approach

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1608 - 1621
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This paper investigates the problem of synchronization for nonlinear systems. Following a Lyapunov approach, we first study the global synchronization of nonlinear systems in the canonical control form with both distributed proportional-derivative and proportional-integral-derivative control actions of any order. To do so, we develop a constructive methodology and generate in an iterative way ineq... View full abstract»

• ### Symbolic Abstractions of Networked Control Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1622 - 1634
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The last decade has witnessed significant attention on networked control systems (NCSs) due to their ubiquitous presence in industrial applications, and in the particular case of wireless NCSs, because of their architectural flexibility and low installation and maintenance costs. In wireless NCSs, the communication between sensors, controllers, and actuators is supported by a communication channel... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Submodular Maximization With Limited Information

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1635 - 1645
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We consider a class of distributed submodular maximization problems in which each agent must choose a single strategy from its strategy set. The global objective is to maximize a submodular function of the strategies chosen by each agent. When choosing a strategy, each agent has access to only a limited number of other agents’ choices. For each of its strategies, an agent can evaluate its marginal... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Calculation of Edge-Disjoint Spanning Trees for Robustifying Distributed Algorithms Against Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1646 - 1656
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In this paper, we provide a distributed methodology to allow a network of agents, tasked to execute a distributed algorithm, to overcome Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks that aim at steering the result of the algorithm toward inconsistent values or dangerous configurations. We want the agents to be able to restore the correct result of the algorithm despite the attacks. To this end, we provide a d... View full abstract»

• ### Flexible Market for Smart Grid: Coordinated Trading of Contingent Contracts

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1657 - 1667
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A coordinated trading process is proposed as a design for an electricity market with significant uncertainty, perhaps from renewables. In this process, groups of agents propose to the system operator (SO) a contingent trade that is balanced, that is, the sum of demand bids and the sum of supply bids are equal. The SO accepts the proposed trade if no network constraint is violated or curtails it un... View full abstract»

• ### Local Stability and Hopf Bifurcation Analysis for Compound TCP

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1668 - 1681
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We conduct a local stability and Hopf bifurcation analysis for Compound transmission control protocol (TCP), with small Drop-Tail buffers, in three topologies. The first topology consists of two sets of TCP flows having different round-trip times and feeding into a core router. The second topology consists of two distinct sets of TCP flows, regulated by a single-edge router and feeding into a core... View full abstract»

• ### Designing Virus-Resistant, High-Performance Networks: A Game-Formation Approach

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1682 - 1692
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Designing an optimal network topology while balancing multiple, possibly conflicting objectives such as cost, performance, and resiliency to viruses is a challenging endeavor, let alone in the case of decentralized network formation. We, therefore, propose a game-formation technique where each player aims to minimize its cost in installing links, the probability of being infected by a virus, and t... View full abstract»

• ### Cloud-Enabled Differentially Private Multiagent Optimization With Constraints

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1693 - 1706
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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We present an optimization framework for solving multiagent convex programs subject to inequality constraints while keeping the agents’ state trajectories private. Each agent has an objective function depending only upon its own state and the agents are collectively subject to global constraints. The agents do not directly communicate with each other but instead route messages through a trusted cl... View full abstract»

• ### Proximal Dynamics in Multiagent Network Games

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1707 - 1716
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We consider dynamics and protocols for agents seeking an equilibrium in a network game with proximal quadratic cost coupling. We adopt an operator-theoretic perspective to show global convergence to a network equilibrium, under the assumption of convex cost functions with proximal quadratic couplings, time-invariant and time-varying communication graph along with convex local constraints, and a ti... View full abstract»

• ### Design Of Real-Time Implementable Distributed Suboptimal Control: An LQR Perspective

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1717 - 1728
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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We propose a framework for multiagent systems in which the agents compute their control actions in real time, based on local information only. The novelty of the proposed framework is that the process of computing a suboptimal control action is divided into two phases: An offline phase and an online phase. In the offline phase, an approximate problem is formulated with a cost function that is clos... View full abstract»

• ### Collaborative and Compressed Mobile Sensing for Data Collection in Distributed Robotic Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1729 - 1740
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In this paper, we exploit an integration between the mobility of robots and the collaboration between them to sample sensing areas that need to be observed. A collaborative and compressed mobile sensing algorithm is proposed for distributed robotic networks to build scalar field maps. In order to move in the sensing field and to avoid collision with obstacles and with each other, a control law is ... View full abstract»

• ### Transitional Behavior of$q$-Composite Random Key Graphs With Applications to Networked Control

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1741 - 1751
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Random key graphs have received considerable attention and been used in various applications including secure sensor networks, social networks, the study of epidemics, cryptanalysis, and recommender systems. In this paper, we investigate$q$-composite random key graphs, whose construction on View full abstract»

• ### Robustness of Leader–Follower Networked Dynamical Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1752 - 1763
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We present a graph–theoretic approach to analyze the robustness of leader–follower consensus dynamics to disturbances and time delays. Robustness to disturbances is captured via the system$\mathcal{H}_2$and$\mathcal{H}_{\infty }$norms, and robustness to time... View full abstract»

• ### The Roles of Input Matrix and Nodal Dynamics in Network Controllability

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1764 - 1774
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Recently, there has been a growing interest in network controllability for determining the number and placement of controllers. In the framework of linear dynamics, this paper regarding the network controllability studies both the formulation of the control input matrix and the influence of the linear nodal dynamics, with precise guidelines derived on how to design the input matrix. This design st... View full abstract»

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