Title
Stabilizing A Linear System Using Phone Calls
Abstract
We consider the problem of stabilizing an undisturbed, scalar, linear system over a "timing" channel, namely a channel where information is communicated through the times-tamps of the transmitted symbols. Each transmitted symbol is received at the controller subject to some to random delay. The sensor can encode messages in the holding times between successive transmissions and the controller must decode them from the inter-reception times of successive symbols. This set-up is analogous to a telephone system where a transmitter signals a phone call to the receiver through a "ring" and, after a random time required to establish the connection, is aware of the "ring" being received. We show that for the state to converge to zero in probability, the timing capacity of the channel should be at least as large as the entropy rate of the system. In the case the symbol delays are exponentially distributed, we show a tight sufficient condition using a decoding strategy that successively refines the estimate of the decoded message every time a new symbol is received. These results extend our previous work on estimation over the timing channel to stabilization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.23919/ECC.2019.8795850
2019 18TH EUROPEAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ECC)
Field
DocType
Volume
Transmitter,Control theory,Entropy rate,Linear system,Control theory,Scalar (physics),Communication channel,Algorithm,Timestamp,Exponential distribution,Mathematics
Journal
abs/1804.00351
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad J. Khojasteh195.00
Massimo Franceschetti22200167.33
Gireeja Ranade38814.45