Lyapunov convergence for Lagrangian models of network control

  • Authors:
  • Ben Strulo;Nigel Walker;Marc Wennink

  • Affiliations:
  • BT Group Chief Technology Office, Ipswich, UK;BT Group Chief Technology Office, Ipswich, UK;BT Group Chief Technology Office, Ipswich, UK

  • Venue:
  • NET-COOP'07 Proceedings of the 1st EuroFGI international conference on Network control and optimization
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Many network control problems can be formulated and studied using the machinery of optimisation theory and Lagrange duality. The goal of the control process is to find the saddle point of the Lagrangian. We present a stability result for a class of dynamic processes for this problem. Our formulation automatically derives a Lyapunov function from the form of the dynamic equations. We show how several stability results from the literature of distributed flow control in networks fit into this formalism.