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2 Citations
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Conserved Control Path in Multilayer Networks

  • Bingbo Wang,
  • Xiujuan Ma,
  • Cunchi Wang,
  • Mingjie Zhang,
  • Qianhua Gong and
  • Lin Gao

15 July 2022

The determination of directed control paths in complex networks is important because control paths indicate the structure of the propagation of control signals through edges. A challenging problem is to identify them in complex networked systems char...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,053 Views
21 Pages

A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks

  • Luís M. L. Oliveira,
  • Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues,
  • Amaro F. De Sousa and
  • Jaime Lloret

18 January 2013

Low power over wireless personal area networks (LoWPAN), in particular wireless sensor networks, represent an emerging technology with high potential to be employed in critical situations like security surveillance, battlefields, smart-grids, and in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,544 Views
28 Pages

Robust Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks for Networked Control Systems

  • Bongsang Park,
  • Junghyo Nah,
  • Jang-Young Choi,
  • Ick-Jae Yoon and
  • Pangun Park

29 March 2019

The stability guarantee of wireless networked control systems is still challenging due to the complex interaction among the layers and the vulnerability to network faults, such as link and node failures. In this paper, we propose a robust wireless se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,159 Views
21 Pages

Formation Control of Mobile Robots Based on Pin Control of Complex Networks

  • Jorge D. Rios,
  • Daniel Ríos-Rivera,
  • Jesus Hernandez-Barragan,
  • Marco Pérez-Cisneros and
  • Alma Y. Alanis

6 October 2022

Robot formation control has several advantages that make it interesting for research. Multiple works have been published in the literature using different control approaches. This work presents the control of different groups of robots to achieve a d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,668 Views
21 Pages

10 March 2022

Complex networks make an enticing research topic that has been increasingly attracting researchers from control systems and various other domains over the last two decades. The aim of this paper was to survey the interest in control related to comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,406 Views
9 Pages

Learning Impulsive Pinning Control of Complex Networks

  • Alma Y. Alanis,
  • Daniel Ríos-Rivera,
  • Edgar N. Sanchez and
  • Oscar D. Sanchez

1 October 2021

In this paper, we present an impulsive pinning control algorithm for discrete-time complex networks with different node dynamics, using a linear algebra approach and a neural network as an identifier, to synthesize a learning control law. The model o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,071 Views
24 Pages

Modeling and Control of Wide-Area Networks

  • Qiuzhen Wang and
  • Jiangping Hu

19 September 2023

This paper provides a survey of recent research progress in mathematical modeling and distributed control of wide-area networks. Firstly, the modeling is introduced for two types of wide-area networks, i.e., coopetitive networks and cooperative netwo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,081 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2018

Vehicular networks need to guarantee the communication reliability levels necessary to satisfy the application requirements, while ensuring a stable network operation even under dense deployments. To this aim, congestion and awareness control protoco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,501 Views
19 Pages

Energy-Efficient Topology Control for UAV Networks

  • Seongjoon Park,
  • Hyeong Tae Kim and
  • Hwangnam Kim

27 November 2019

Following striking developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, the use of UAVs has been researched in various industrial fields. Furthermore, a number of studies on operating multiple autonomous networking UAVs suggest a potential to us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,022 Views
13 Pages

Secrecy Control of Wireless Networks with Finite Encoding Blocklength

  • Qiuming Liu,
  • Shumin Liu,
  • Chunshui Zeng,
  • Xiaohong Qiu and
  • He Xiao

25 February 2019

We consider wireless multi-hop networks in which each node aims to securely transmit a message. To guarantee the secure transmission, we employ an independent randomization encoding strategy to encode the confidential message. We aim to maximize the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,593 Views
22 Pages

Research on the Robustness of Command and Control Networks under Cascading Failures

  • Biao Zhao,
  • Menglin Wang,
  • Qizeng Zhang,
  • Weiting Lin and
  • Dan Zhou

11 October 2024

The current analysis of cascading failures in command and control networks pays little attention to their roles and mechanisms, resulting in challenges in quantifying survivability evaluation metrics and limiting practical application. To address the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,876 Views
17 Pages

Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Urban Traffic Networks

  • Bao-Lin Ye,
  • Weimin Wu,
  • Huimin Gao,
  • Yixia Lu,
  • Qianqian Cao and
  • Lijun Zhu

7 June 2017

This paper proposes a stochastic model predictive control (MPC) framework for traffic signal coordination and control in urban traffic networks. One of the important features of the proposed stochastic MPC model is that uncertain traffic demands and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,924 Views
16 Pages

Spreading Control in Two-Layer Multiplex Networks

  • Roberto Bernal Jaquez,
  • Luis Angel Alarcón Ramos and
  • Alexander Schaum

15 October 2020

The problem of controlling a spreading process in a two-layer multiplex networks in such a way that the extinction state becomes a global attractor is addressed. The problem is formulated in terms of a Markov-chain based susceptible-infected-suscepti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,145 Views
18 Pages

19 May 2023

With the continuous development of information technology, a spontaneous interdependent network has formed within the air traffic control network. Due to the internal interdependence, any small, failed node may trigger a cascade failure of the entire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,930 Views
20 Pages

2 January 2024

This paper primarily focuses on the chaos synchronisation analysis of neural networks (NNs) under a hybrid controller. Firstly, we design a suitable hybrid controller with saturated impulse control, combined with time-dependent intermittent control....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,971 Views
20 Pages

Neural-Impulsive Pinning Control for Complex Networks Based on V-Stability

  • Daniel Ríos-Rivera,
  • Alma Y. Alanis and
  • Edgar N. Sanchez

19 August 2020

In this work, a neural impulsive pinning controller for a twenty-node dynamical discrete complex network is presented. The node dynamics of the network are all different types of discrete versions of chaotic attractors of three dimensions. Using the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,098 Views
22 Pages

24 January 2024

5G cellular networks are already more than six times faster than 4G networks, and their packet loss rate, especially in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), can reach 0.5% in many cases, such as when there is high-speed movement or obstacles nearby. In su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,576 Views
24 Pages

Smart Control of Multiple Evaporator Systems with Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

  • Apolinar González-Potes,
  • Walter A. Mata-López,
  • Alberto M. Ochoa-Brust and
  • Carlos Escobar-del Pozo

29 February 2016

This paper describes the complete integration of a fuzzy control of multiple evaporator systems with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, in which we study several important aspects for this kind of system, like a detailed analysis of the end-to-end real-time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,883 Views
20 Pages

2 March 2020

This paper investigates the role of trust and control in networks of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a focus on both their direct and interaction effects on value creation. To delve into the interplay between trust and control, we unp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,243 Views
23 Pages

Network Adaptive Deadband: NCS Data Flow Control for Shared Networks

  • Miguel Díaz-Cacho,
  • Emma Delgado,
  • José A. G. Prieto and
  • Joaquín López

3 December 2012

This paper proposes a new middleware solution called Network Adaptive Deadband (NAD) for long time operation of Networked Control Systems (NCS) through the Internet or any shared network based on IP technology. The proposed middleware takes into acco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,325 Views
16 Pages

Statement Recognition of Access Control Policies in IoT Networks

  • Li Ma,
  • Zexian Yang,
  • Zhaoxiong Bu,
  • Qidi Lao and
  • Wenyin Yang

16 September 2023

Access Control Policies (ACPs) are essential for ensuring secure and authorized access to resources in IoT networks. Recognizing these policies involves identifying relevant statements within project documents expressed in natural language. While cur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
887 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2024

This paper develops a parameter tuning method for solving the set restabilization problem of perturbed Boolean control networks (BCNs). First, the absorbable attractor, which we previously proposed, is recalled. Based on the relationship between attr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
368 Views
17 Pages

The Region of Attraction for Output Tracking in Probabilistic Boolean Control Networks

  • Bingquan Chen,
  • Yuyi Xue,
  • Meiyu Li,
  • Jin-Jin Mao and
  • Aiju Shi

17 November 2025

This paper investigates the asymptotic output tracking problem in probabilistic Boolean control networks by introducing the concept of the tracking region of attraction (TROA). For a constant reference signal, we provide a formal definition of the TR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,722 Views
19 Pages

Fixed-Time Synchronization Control of Delayed Dynamical Complex Networks

  • Mei Liu,
  • Binglong Lu,
  • Zhanfeng Li,
  • Haijun Jiang and
  • Cheng Hu

30 November 2021

Fixed-time synchronization problem for delayed dynamical complex networks is explored in this paper. Compared with some correspondingly existed results, a few new results are obtained to guarantee fixed-time synchronization of delayed dynamical netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
714 Views
21 Pages

Data-Based Predictive Control Based Voltage Control in Active Distribution Networks

  • Qihan Li,
  • Yongqi Zhu,
  • Zhiyuan Tang,
  • Youbo Liu and
  • Yang Shi

28 October 2025

The increasing integration of distributed renewable energy sources into distribution networks results in significant voltage regulation challenges. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel data-driven approach for voltage regulation that uti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,567 Views
18 Pages

Reinforcement Learning Based Topology Control for UAV Networks

  • Taehoon Yoo,
  • Sangmin Lee,
  • Kyeonghyun Yoo and
  • Hwangnam Kim

13 January 2023

The recent development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has shown the possibility of using UAVs in many research and industrial fields. One of them is for UAVs moving in swarms to provide wireless networks in environments where there is no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,907 Views
10 Pages

1 August 2002

This paper presents an overview on applications of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to robot control systems and outlines the contributions of ANNs. Adaptive neurocontrol architectures are introduced and compared to traditional adaptive control meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,632 Views
16 Pages

Inverse Optimal Impulsive Neural Control for Complex Networks Applied to Epidemic Diseases

  • Nancy F. Ramirez,
  • Daniel Ríos-Rivera,
  • Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas and
  • Alma Y. Alanis

3 November 2022

This paper proposes an impulsive control scheme for a complex network that helps reduce the spread of two epidemic diseases: influenza type A and COVID-19. Both are respiratory infections; thus, they have a similar form of transmission, and it is pos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,928 Views
31 Pages

A Survey of Access Control Models in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Htoo Aung Maw,
  • Hannan Xiao,
  • Bruce Christianson and
  • James A. Malcolm

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted considerable interest in the research community, because of their wide range of applications. However, due to the distributed nature of WSNs and their deployment in remote areas, these networks are vulne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,990 Views
25 Pages

Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Streamline the Process of Adaptive Cruise Control

  • Jiří David,
  • Pavel Brom,
  • František Starý,
  • Josef Bradáč and
  • Vojtěch Dynybyl

20 April 2021

This article deals with the use of neural networks for estimation of deceleration model parameters for the adaptive cruise control unit. The article describes the basic functionality of adaptive cruise control and creates a mathematical model of brak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,042 Views
28 Pages

7 September 2020

The problems of social networks analysis and calculation of the resulting opinions of network agents are considered. Algorithms for identifying strong subgroups and satellites as well as for calculating some quantitative characteristics of a network...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,729 Views
17 Pages

Wireless Networks for Traffic Light Control on Urban and Aerotropolis Roads

  • João Cunha,
  • Nelson Batista,
  • Carlos Cardeira and
  • Rui Melicio

This paper presents a traffic light system based on wireless communication that provides a support infrastructure for intelligent control in the context of smart cities and aerotropolis areas. An aerotropolis is a metropolitan subregion with an infra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,917 Views
28 Pages

Pipe Routing with Topology Control for Decentralized and Autonomous UAV Networks

  • Shreyas Devaraju,
  • Shivam Garg,
  • Alexander Ihler,
  • Elizabeth Serena Bentley and
  • Sunil Kumar

13 February 2025

This paper considers a decentralized and autonomous wireless network of low SWaP (size, weight, and power) fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) used for remote exploration and monitoring of targets in an inaccessible area lacking communication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,506 Views
16 Pages

Penalty Electricity Price-Based Optimal Control for Distribution Networks

  • Qingle Pang,
  • Lin Ye,
  • Houlei Gao,
  • Xinian Li,
  • Yang Zheng and
  • Chenbin He

24 March 2021

With the integration of large-scale renewable energy and the implementation of demand response, the complexity and volatility of distribution network operations are increasing. This has led to the inconsistency between the actual net power consumptio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,830 Views
24 Pages

7 June 2022

This work presents a methodological framework for the design of a resource-aware supervisory control system for process networks with model uncertainty and communication resource constraints. The developed framework aims to balance the objective of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,281 Views
13 Pages

15 October 2020

The conversion between logic and algebraic expressions of Boolean control networks plays a worthy role in the analysis and design of digital circuits. In this paper, for a single Boolean function, a direct conversion between the minterm canonical for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,485 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2024

Complex network theory involves network structure and dynamics; dynamics on networks and interactions between networks; and dynamics developed over a network. As a typical application of complex networks, the dynamics of disease spreading and control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,748 Views
19 Pages

11 December 2020

Next-generation cellular networks are large-scale systems composed of numerous base stations interacting with many diverse users. One of the main challenges with these networks is their high energy consumption due to the expected number of connected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,045 Views
14 Pages

The question of targeted control over trajectories of systems of differential equations encountered in the theory of genetic and neural networks is considered. Examples are given of transferring trajectories corresponding to network states from the b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,801 Views
16 Pages

Parallel One-Step Control of Parametrised Boolean Networks

  • Luboš Brim,
  • Samuel Pastva,
  • David Šafránek and
  • Eva Šmijáková

6 March 2021

Boolean network (BN) is a simple model widely used to study complex dynamic behaviour of biological systems. Nonetheless, it might be difficult to gather enough data to precisely capture the behavior of a biological system into a set of Boolean funct...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
632 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2025

This paper aims to find optimal feedback policies for the tracking control of Markovian jump Boolean control networks (MJBCNs) over a finite horizon. The tracking objective is a predetermined time-varying trajectory with a finite length. To minimize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,006 Views
23 Pages

Event-Driven Edge Agent Framework for Distributed Control in Distribution Networks

  • Xianglong Zhang,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Songlin Gu,
  • Yuzhou Tian and
  • Yifan Gao

24 May 2025

With the large-scale integration of heterogeneous energy resources and the increasing demand for flexible control, centralized control is facing challenges in terms of operational efficiency and system responsiveness when handling high-precision regu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,957 Views
18 Pages

Inclusion of Hydraulic Controls in Rehabilitation Models of Drainage Networks to Control Floods

  • Leonardo Bayas-Jiménez,
  • F. Javier Martínez-Solano,
  • Pedro L. Iglesias-Rey,
  • Daniel Mora-Melia and
  • Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel

17 February 2021

A problem for drainage systems managers is the increase in extreme rain events that are increasing in various parts of the world. Their occurrence produces hydraulic overload in the drainage system and consequently floods. Adapting the existing infra...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,366 Views
16 Pages

11 August 2021

In applications where high precision in micro- and nanopositioning is required, piezoelectric actuators (PEA) are an optimal micromechatronic choice. However, the accuracy of these devices is affected by a natural phenomenon called “hysteresis” that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,176 Views
14 Pages

Impulsive Pinning Control of Discrete-Time Complex Networks with Time-Varying Connections

  • Daniel Ríos-Rivera,
  • Jorge D. Rios,
  • Oscar D. Sanchez and
  • Alma Y. Alanis

1 November 2022

Complex dynamical networks with time-varying connections have characteristics that allow a better representation of real-world complex systems, especially interest in their not static behavior and topology. Their applications reach areas such as comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,436 Views
13 Pages

Efficient Power Control Framework for Small-Cell Heterogeneous Networks

  • Qais Alsafasfeh,
  • Omar A. Saraereh,
  • Ashraf Ali,
  • Luae Al-Tarawneh,
  • Imran Khan and
  • Adão Silva

7 March 2020

Heterogeneous networks are rapidly emerging as one of the key enablers of beyond fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. It is gradually becoming clear to the network operators that existing cellular networks may not be able to support the traffic d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,440 Views
16 Pages

24 August 2020

For smooth integration with middleboxes on the Internet, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is favorably considered as a transport-layer protocol for IoT (Internet of Things) networks. In constrained networks, TCP tends to perform well with a small...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,730 Views
12 Pages

30 October 2022

This paper studies the robust stabilization of impulsive Boolean control networks (IBCNs) with function perturbation. A Boolean control network (BCN) with a state-dependent impulsive sequence is converted to an equivalent BCN by the semi-tensor produ...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,246 Views
20 Pages

23 April 2024

Active Distribution Networks are Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems with coupled dynamics, which cause interactions among the control loops of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). This undesired effect leads to performance degradation of voltage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,739 Views
15 Pages

Towards Model-Free Pressure Control in Water Distribution Networks

  • Thapelo C. Mosetlhe,
  • Yskandar Hamam,
  • Shengzhi Du,
  • Eric Monacelli and
  • Adedayo A. Yusuff

26 September 2020

Pressure control in water distribution networks (WDNs) is one of the interventions commonly employed to improve the reliability and sustainability of water supply. Various approaches have been proposed to solve the problem of pressure control. Howeve...

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