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On the use of feedback control in the design of computing system components

Maggio, Martina LU ; Papadopoulos, Alessandro Vittorio LU and Leva, Alberto (2013) In Asian Journal of Control 15(1). p.31-40
Abstract

Feedback controllers are typically applied to computing systems by acting on some quantities ("tunable parameters" in the computer science lexicon, e.g., a packet drop rate) to attain some goal (e.g., a required bandwidth allocation). In other words, control loops are closed around the computing system. In the authors' opinion, this is definitely a partial use of control. Many critical parts of computing systems should not be controlled, but rather redesigned in the form of controllers. This paper formalises the statement above and illustrates some results, including application examples, to demonstrate the advantages of such a novel approach, and to stimulate research on the matter.

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keywords
computing systems, discrete-time systems, PID control, predictive control
in
Asian Journal of Control
volume
15
issue
1
pages
10 pages
publisher
Chinese Automatic Control Society
external identifiers
  • scopus:84867825399
ISSN
1561-8625
DOI
10.1002/asjc.509
project
Cloud Control
Power Control for Computing Infrastructures
language
English
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no
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Copyright: Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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