Optimal solution to a team problem with information delays: an application in flow control for communication networks

Orhan Cagri Imer, Tamer Basar

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Abstract

We consider a network of a number of best-effort type sources, viewed as decision makers (DM's) of a team, sharing a bottleneck node. Each source (or DM) has access to differently delayed versions of the same information about the status of the network and decides on his own rate of transmission. We seek the best decision functions for each DM that minimize a certain quadratic performance index under the given information pattern. We first exploit the special information structure of the problem by bringing in some additional variables to formulate it in the form of a standard discrete-time Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) problem. Then, the solution of the original problem is obtained as that of the equivalent LQG problem. Finally, we present an example to illustrate the solution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2697-2702
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume3
StatePublished - 1999
EventThe 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) - Phoenix, AZ, USA
Duration: Dec 7 1999Dec 10 1999

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Optimization
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation

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