Understanding phase transition in communication networks to enable robust and resilient control Export

@inproceedings{SarkarResilientComm09, abstract = {This paper presents an application of statistical mechanics for analysis of critical phenomena in complex networks. Using the simulation model of a wired communication grid, the nature of phase transition is characterized and the corresponding critical exponent is computed. Network analogs of thermodynamic quantities such as order parameter, temperature, pressure, and composition are defined and the associated network phase diagrams are constructed. The notion of <i>network</i> <i>eutectic</i> <i>point</i> is introduced by showing characteristic similarities between the network phase diagram and the binary phase diagram. A concept of robust and resilient control in communication networks is presented based on network phase diagrams.}, author = {Sarkar, S. and Mukherjee, K. and Srivastav, A. and Ray, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {5916226}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2009.5159994}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5159994}, day = {10}, doi = {10.1109/ACC.2009.5159994}, journal = {American Control Conference, 2009. ACC '09.}, keywords = {control, network, resilient}, month = {July}, pages = {1549--1554}, posted-at = {2009-10-09 14:56:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Understanding phase transition in communication networks to enable robust and resilient control}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2009.5159994}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - SarkarResilientComm09 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5916226 N2 - This paper presents an application of statistical mechanics for analysis of critical phenomena in complex networks. Using the simulation model of a wired communication grid, the nature of phase transition is characterized and the corresponding critical exponent is computed. Network analogs of thermodynamic quantities such as order parameter, temperature, pressure, and composition are defined and the associated network phase diagrams are constructed. The notion of <i>network</i> <i>eutectic</i> <i>point</i> is introduced by showing characteristic similarities between the network phase diagram and the binary phase diagram. A concept of robust and resilient control in communication networks is presented based on network phase diagrams. JF - American Control Conference, 2009. ACC '09. EP - 1554 TI - Understanding phase transition in communication networks to enable robust and resilient control SP - 1549 KW - control KW - network KW - resilient AU - Sarkar, S AU - Mukherjee, K AU - Srivastav, A AU - Ray, A PY - 2009/07/10/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2009.5159994 ER -