Flocking is a term that describes the behavior of a group of birds (a “flock”) in flight, or the swarming behavior of insects. This paper presents detailed information about how to use the flocking techniques to control a group of embedded controlled systems ‘’Boids’’such as ground systems (robotic vehicles/ swarm robots). Each one of these systems collectively moves inside/outside of a buildin...

We consider the problem of designing a packet-level congestion control and scheduling policy for datacenter networks. Current datacenter networks primarily inherit the principles that went into the design of Internet, where congestion control and scheduling are distributed. While distributed architecture provides robustness, it suffers in terms of performance. Unlike Internet, data center is fu...

Energy efficiency is of major concern in wireless sensor networks, especially in difficult node deployment environments. Clustering is an effective method to save energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. There are two kinds of clustering methods in hierarchical routing protocols, namely distributed control and centralized control. In the distributed strategy, the algorithm has good ...

In this paper we study the scalability issue in the design of a centralized bandwidth broker model for dynamic control and management of QoS provisioning. We propose and develop a path-oriented, quota-based dynamic bandwidth allocation mechanism for efficient admission control operations under the centralized bandwidth broker model. We demonstrate that this dynamic bandwidth allocation mechanis...

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm brings an opportunity for advanced Demand Response (DR) solutions. It enables visibility and control on the various appliances that may consume, store or generate energy within a home. It has been shown that a centralized control on the appliances of a set of households leads to efficient DR mechanisms; unfortunately, such solutions raise privacy and scalab...

This paper studies a systemic risk control problem by the central bank, which dynamically plans monetary supply to stabilize interbank system with borrowing and lending activities. Facing both heterogeneity among banks common noise, bank aims find an optimal strategy minimize average distance between log-monetary reserves of all benchmark some target steady levels. A weak formulation is adopted...

With the wide deployment of autonomous multi-agent robotic systems, control solutions based on centralized algorithms have been developed. Even though these can optimize performance they require a lot computational effort, and unit to undertake whole process. Yet, many platforms like some ground robots even more, aerial robots, do not computing capacity execute this kind frameworks their onboar...

Excessive static pressure and inadequate flow rate at each terminal of the centralized cooking exhaust systems contribute to poor indoor air quality in kitchens. Roof fans can improve ventilation performance system, but optimal control strategy for roof is currently unavailable. This paper proposes a reset variable frequency operation that follows law normal distribution simultaneous operating ...