Systems and Control: Foundations & Applications
Series Editor Tamer Bas¸ar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Editorial Board Karl Johan Astr˚ om,¨ Lund University of Technology, Lund, Sweden Han-Fu Chen, Academia Sinica, Beijing William Helton, University of California, San Diego Alberto Isidori, University of Rome (Italy) and Washington University, St. Louis Petar V. Kokotovic,´ University of California, Santa Barbara Alexander Kurzhanski, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and University of California, Berkeley H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University Mete Soner, Koc¸ University, Istanbul Advances in Control, Communication Networks, and Transportation Systems In Honor of Pravin Varaiya
E. H. Abed Editor
Birkhauser¨ Boston • Basel • Berlin E.H. Abed University of Maryland Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering College Park, MD 20742 U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Advances in control, communication networks, and transportation systems: in honor of Pravin Varaiya / Eyad H. Abed, editor. p. cm. – (Systems & control) Essays in honor of Professor Pravin Varaiya; also presented at a meeting held in Berkeley, June 5-7, 2005 Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8176-4385-0 (alk. paper) 1. Feedback control systems. 2. Data transmission systems. 3. Computer networks. I. Abed, Eyad H. II. Varaiya, P. P. (Pravin Pratap) III. Series.
TJ217.A39 2005 629.8 3–dc22 2005048106
ISBN-10 0-8176-4385-0 e-ISBN 0-8176-4409-1 Printed on acid-free paper. ISBN-13 978-0-8176-4385-0