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Advances in Control, Communication Networks, and Transportation Systems

In Honor of Pravin Varaiya

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. E. H. Abed

    1. Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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  • Comprises invited contributions from first-rate researchers in the fields of systems, control, and networks
  • Accessible to a broad audience of practicing and research engineers, applied mathematicians, and graduate students working in such areas as communication networks, sensor networks, transportation systems, control theory, hybrid systems, and applications
  • Unified, self-contained work, which may be used as a supplementary text in various graduate courses and seminars
  • Wide range of topics covered, including hybrid and stochastic systems, system engineering education and design, automated highway systems and transportation science, and various aspects of networks
  • Presents a number of real-world applications

Part of the book series: Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications (SCFA)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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  3. System Theory and Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Martingale Representation and All That

      • Mark H. A. Davis
      Pages 57-68

    3. Engineering Education: A Focus on Systems

      • Edward A. Lee
      Pages 69-77

    4. New Directions in System Design Automation

      • Akash R. Deshpande
      Pages 79-88

  4. Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Causal Coding and Feedback in Gaussian Sensor Networks

      • Michael Gastpar
      Pages 91-110

    3. Cross-layer Design of Control over Wireless Networks

      • Xiangheng Liu, Andrea Goldsmith
      Pages 111-136

    4. Network Pricing for QoS: A ‘Regulation’ Approach

      • Dinesh Garg, Vivek S. Borkar, D. Manjunath
      Pages 137-157

    5. Achieving Fairness in a Distributed Ad-Hoc MAC

      • Rajarshi Gupta, Jean Walrand
      Pages 159-181

    6. Cooperation, Trust and Games in Wireless Networks

      • John S. Baras, Tao Jiang
      Pages 183-202

    7. A Game Theoretic View of Efficiency Loss in Resource Allocation

      • Ramesh Johari, John N. Tsitsiklis
      Pages 203-223

    8. Decentralized Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Networks: Realization and Implementation

      • Tudor Mihai Stoenescu, Demosthenis Teneketzis
      Pages 225-263

  5. Transportation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265
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    2. Automated Highway Systems Research: The Influence of Pravin Varaiya

      • Steven E. Shladover
      Pages 267-282

    3. The Traffic Amelioration Potential of Freeway Network Ramp Metering Control

      • A. Kotsialos, M. Papageorgiou
      Pages 283-303
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About this book

This volume was prepared in conjunction with a Symposium held in Berkeley June 5–7, 2005, as a tribute to Professor Pravin Varaiya. The contributions represent most of the lectures given at the meeting. The Symposium brought together former students, collaborators and friends from throughout the world to celebrate Pravin’s career as he approached the memorable occasion of his 65th birthday. The authors, speakers, organizers, supporters and attendees of the Symposium are very pleased to dedicate this work to Pravin, to congratulate him on his many seminal contributions, and to thank him for his leadership in the ?elds of systems, control and networks over the past four decades. Pravin Varaiya was born on October 29, 1940 in Bombay, India. He earned the B. E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bombay in 1960, and then began his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The early 1960swasanexcitingtimeduringwhichthefoundationsofsystemsandcontrolwere developed, and Berkeley contributed to this development through the research of Professors Arthur Bergen, Charles Desoer, Mac Hopkin, Eli Jury, Elijah Polak, Otto Smith, and Lot? Zadeh. Professor Eugene Wong joined the faculty in 1963 and c- tributed to the understanding of stochastic systems. Berkeley attracted outstanding visiting faculty, including Moshe Zakai and Bill Root. The faculty trained and m- tored a strong group of graduate students, including Mike Athans, Dick Mortensen, Jack Wing, Jim Eaton, Cesare Galtieri, Barry Whalen, and Pravin Varaiya.

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  • Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    E. H. Abed

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